The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) published a roughly 900-page final regularity for the Medicare outpatient hospital prospective payment hypothesis (PPS) in the April 7 2000 Federal Register.

The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) published a roughly 900-page final regularity for the Medicare outpatient hospital prospective payment hypothesis (PPS) in the April 7 2000 Federal Register. commonly the final rule increases payments 46% from one side of to the other the current cost-based methodology and will simplify billing for Medicare outpatient services for nearly all hospitals in the United States.

The Balanced batch Act (BBA) of 1997 specifically exclud rehabilitation services from the outpatient hospital PP However, the recent PPS will apply to the vast majority of audiologic

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