CMS proposes 3.8 percent OPPS update.(Outpatient Payments)

Publication: Medicine & Health

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Hospital payments under the outpatient prospective payment system would get a 3.8 percent increase under the proposed rule released the Aug. 6 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Aggregate outpatient payments to the nearly 4,400 OPPS hospitals would go up nearly 5.7 percent under the rule, from an estimated $21.6 billion in 2003...

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