tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 32

Hospitals: More DRGs Are Tapped For Pay Increase

How CMS plans to tinker with the inpatient prospective payment system. Several diagnosis related groups are on deck for updates, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Want to know how the money will be flowing in October 2004? Here's a peek.      CMS will:       carve out a new DRG for certain craniotomy procedures that involve the implantation of a chemotherapeutic agent, including acute complex central nervous system diagnoses;       increase payment for burn patients who have respiratory failure and require the long-term...

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