FY 2009 Inpatient Payments: Final Rule Offers Few Surprises
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Device-related hospital payments will remain relatively stable when CMS completes a three-year transition to cost-based payment weights and a two-year transition to severity-based categories Oct. 1
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