New-Tech Inpatient Bonus Payments May Take Hiatus In FY 2008
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Fiscal 2008 could be the first year that CMS makes no "new technology" bonus hospital inpatient payments since it began accepting industry applications for such payments in 2002
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