CMS Targets Hospitals Abusing IPPS Outlier Pool; Details Expected By Dec. 15
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
CMS plans to investigate all hospitals generating an unusually high level of Medicare payments through the inpatient prospective payment system's outlier pool, the agency announced Dec 3
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