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Reimbursement: Get the Lowdown on MedPac Recommendations
Severity of impact on FFS will depend on how changes are implemented.
If the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC’s) payment update recommendations are accepted by Medicare, you can expect dynamic change in 2015, including a rise in inpatient payment rates and equalizing payment differences across long-term care hospitals and acute-care hospitals.
MedPAC met on January 15-16, 2015, to finalize recommendations regarding 2015 payments for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF), long term care hospitals (LTCH), ambulatory surgical centers, outpatient dialysis, and hospice services. These recommendations were included in MedPAC’s 2015 March Report to Congress on Medicare payment...
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