HCFA PROPOSES TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS FOR NEW TECHNOLOGIES.(Brief Article)

Publication: Medicine & Health

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The roughly 4,800 acute care hospitals paid through the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system would get a 2.55 percent increase for fiscal year 2002 under the proposed rule published in the May 4 Federal Register. By statute, annual updates for PPS hospitals are pegged at 0.55 percent less than...

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