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Hospitals should receive a 1% increase in their inpatient and outpatient Medicare payment rates, according to draft recommendations released Thursday by the head of Congress' primary Medicare advisory group.
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Changes in rural provider payments, Medicare supplemental insurance and the fee-for-service payment system were the focus of congressional overseers reviewing recent MedPAC recommendations.
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Dr. Christine Cassel will leave her posts as president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation in July 2013, when her current term ends.
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Congress should add a new charge for Medicare beneficiaries who buy supplemental insurance, according to a recommendation from its advisory panel.
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In a letter to federal lawmakers, teaching hospitals and medical schools emphasized their opposition to payment reductions for evaluation and management services in hospital outpatient departments (HOPD) that were folded into the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011.
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Medicare's advisory panel recommended a pay hike for most hospital services in 2013, but a separate spending suggestion received much more attention.
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Medicare payments for hospitals' inpatient and outpatient services should increase 1%, Medicare's advisory panel recommended Thursday, while pay for evaluation and management in hospitals' outpatient facilities should drop to the amount provided to physicians' offices for such services.
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Neither inpatient rehabilitation facility services nor long-term-care hospital services would receive Medicare payment increases in 2013, under draft recommendations that the program's advisory panel will consider.
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Ambulatory surgical centers should receive a 0.5% rate increase in calendar year 2013 from Medicare, according to a draft advisory board recommendation.
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Medicare payments for hospitals' inpatient and outpatient services should increase only 1%, the leader of Medicare's advisory panel recommended Thursday, while pay for evaluation and management in hospitals' outpatient facilities should drop to the amount provided to physicians' offices providing...
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