CMS projects an average Medicare inpatient payment increase of 2.4%, totaling $1.4 billion industrywide, when the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1. The update, described in a proposed rule for inpatient care and long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), is based on a 3.2% increase to the market basket and a 0.8% reduction via a mandatory economywide productivity adjustment. Hospital advocates expressed a measure of discontent with the preliminary payment c…
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