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See Latest ArticlesCms adopts policy, payment rate changes for services in hospital outpatient departments
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Press, 11/23/09
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that most hospitals will receive an inflation update of 2.1 percent in their payment rates for services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries in outpatient departments. As required by Medicare law, CMS will reduce the update by 2.0 percentage points for hospitals that did not participate in quality data reporting for outpatient services or did not report the quality data successfully, resulting in a 0.1 percent update for those hospitals.
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