September 20, 2012—Hospitals that provide much of the nation’s charity care are applauding the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposal to remove a flaw in its Medicare outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) payment methodology that the safety-net care providers had previously asked it to address.
Safety Net Hospitals for Pharmaceutical Access (SNHPA) and the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (NAPH) expressed their appreciation in comments on CMS’s July 30 proposed rule.
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