The decline in payment rates resulted from the CY 2011 threshold models that were paying “1 percent of total payment for outliers rather than 0.93 percent. Therefore, the estimated total increase in payment based on the technical corrections…results in a decline of 0.1 percent.”
Furthermore, CMS used an incorrect set of claims data in establishing the median costs. The fixed-dollar outlier for CY 2012 was changed from $1,900 to $2,025.
Table 59, which listed the estimated impact of the changes for the hospital OPPS, was also updated. CMS removed a hospital that had submitted a claim containing a single line for which no payment was made. The total number of hospitals represented in the OPPS data is now 3,894 instead of 3,895.
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