Medicare Inpatient Proposal: No Near-Term Trouble Spots For Device Sector
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Medicare reimbursement rates for most device-intensive hospital procedures would increase moderately next year even as overall payments to hospitals would decline under CMS' fiscal year 2011 inpatient 1proposed rule, issued April 19
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