Packaging Policies Finalized, Comprehensive Payments Delayed In Medicare Outpatient Pay Reg
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
In its final 2014 hospital outpatient prospective payment system rule, CMS finalized proposals in the draft regulation to package payment rates for certain categories of device-dependent items and services, and to create 29 comprehensive ambulatory payment classifications to replace existing ones.
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