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Some ambulance services will get a "super-rural" bonus under an interim final rule issued July 1 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The bonus increases the base rate by 22.6 percent for trips that originate in rural areas in the lowest population-density quartile of all rural areas. CMS says this increase, which runs from July 1, 2004, through Dec. 31, 2009, is intended to help ambulance services transition to the national fee schedule that went into effect on April 1, 2002.
The rule, which implements section 414 of the Medicare Modernization Act, also gives general payment...
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