Senate, House Members Weigh In On Delay Of Inpatient Payment Overhaul
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Device makers hope Senate Finance Committee Chair Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) can sway CMS to delay overhaul of inpatient payments until fiscal year 2008 with his long-awaited comments to the agency
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