Outlier Payment Qualification Standards Raised By CMS
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
CMS will adopt a fixed-dollar threshold of $1,175 for "outlier" payment qualification in 2005, raising the previous threshold amount by $550
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