P4P is already on its way and most organizations that manage Medicare lines of businesses are not preparing for the changes in data collection and reporting. Here is a good article outlining the P4P programs already in demonstration with CMS and where they are headed. Now is the time for us to pay attention...
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The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission on Tuesday voted to adopt several final recommendations to Congress for fiscal year 2007, including a plan to increase Medicare hospital inpatient and outpatient payments by the market basket increase minus 0.45%, CQ HealthBeat reports. The recommendation would result in a payment increase of 3.55% for inpatient care, with...
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