tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 34

HOSPITALS: Facilities Could See Part B Pay Boost

CMS may reimburse for more Part Bs.Good news for hospitals that administer biologicals and radiopharmaceuticals in their outpatient departments: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to pay hospitals more for most Part B drugs.The best news could be for acute care hospitals, which  could receive a 3.2 percent inflation adjustment to their payment rates under the outpatient prospective payment system in 2006, CMS announced July 18. Sole Community Hospitals Looking At Increase CMS' proposed rule contains policy changes and updated payment rates, including: Coinsurance rates will decrease gradually to 20 percent of the hospital's...

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