Preview: Fiscal 2009 Medicare Inpatient Payment Proposal Expected Soon
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Fiscal year 2009 will mark the final phase-in of substantive changes to CMS' inpatient prospective payment system that began three years ago; the agency also could reveal other policy changes in its proposed rule due out this month
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