August 1, 2012—The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed to budget $48.1 billion for Medicare reimbursement to hospital outpatient facilities in 2013, an increase of 2.1 percent above this year’s level. In addition, it will increase the payment rate for separately payable drugs and biologicals by 2 percent and drop a problematic payment methodology that hospitals enrolled in the 340B drug discount program have long opposed.
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