Hospital, Pathology Lab Cost Burden Downplayed By GAO In TC Billing Review
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
CMS' annual recalibration of relative payment weights under PPS eventually would offset costs incurred by hospitals if labs were no longer able to bill directly to Medicare for certain pathology services, GAO finds
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