CMS Says 97% of Hospitals Getting Full Medicare Outpatient Payment Update

CMS reported that 97 percent of eligible hospitals in the hospital outpatient quality data reporting program will receive a full Medicare payment update for calendar year 2010, according to a report by AHA News Now.

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Qualifying hospitals’ payment update for calendar year 2010 will be 2.1 percentage points, compared with 0.1 percentage point for those that did not qualify.

Read AHA News Now’s report on the hospital outpatient quality data reporting program.

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