tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 22
Long-Term Care: Medicare Payments On Uptick Despite Debate
MedPAC's cautions all but ignored in new rule.The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission suspects that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' high Medicare payments for long-term care hospitals could provide for-profit facilities with an incentive to try to qualify as LTCHs. So why is CMS raising LTCH's Medicare reimbursement rates again?Medicare payment rates will increase by 3.4 percent for patient discharges from July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006. CMS applied these payment increases to its final rule on LTCHs' annual payment rates and policy changes, despite MedPAC's repeated warnings about Medicare's overspending on LTCH. CMS...
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