Provisions include a 0.25 percent market basket cut, effective April 1, 2010. Others are wage index-related changes, payments to hospitals in “low-cost” counties, protections for frontier states and Medicare extenders, according to the report. CMS is accepting comments on the rule through July 2.
Read the AHA News Now report on the 2011 IPPS.
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