Outpatient Packaging Policy Could Impact High-Cost Equipment Purchases
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
CMS' decision to broadly expand "packaging" of outpatient service payments in 2008 might affect hospitals' decisions to purchase or keep expensive capital equipment, the agency says
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