Healthcare DIVE November 3, 2023
Regulators finalized a number of rules Thursday with sweeping implications for providers in the Medicare program, including rates for next year that doctors and hospitals slammed as insufficient.
Regulators on Thursday finalized a flurry of rules with sweeping implications for U.S. providers, including Medicare reimbursement rates for hospital outpatient sites and doctor’s offices and a controversial fix for underpayments in a drug discount program.
The CMS hiked Medicare payments for hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers by 3.1% for 2024.
Physicians, however, will see their Medicare reimbursement fall by 3.4%.
Both hospitals and doctors slammed the final rates as insufficient, with doctors calling on Congress to soften the cuts as legislators have in the past.
Hospitals were also up...
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