tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 41

HOSPITALS: You'll Get A Payment Increase In 2007, But Medicare Will Demand More Quality Reporting

CMS is concerned about the 12-percent jump in hospital outpatient expenditures.Although you may get excited about the overall average 3-percent increase in Medicare payments for outpatient services in calendar year (CY) 2007, you may not like some of the hoops that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will make you jump through to get that reimbursement boost.In the agency's final rule for Medicare hospital-outpatient payments in CY 2007, CMS has laid out some substantial changes for general acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, inpatient psychiatric facilities, long-term acute care hospitals, children's hospitals, cancer hospitals and...

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