January 14, 2016—The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission voted 14-3 today to recommend that Congress
- reduce Medicare Part B drug reimbursement for 340B hospitals by 10 percent of average sales price, which would cut the amount a hospital saves on a Part B drug by about 30 percent
- put the savings into the Medicare-funded hospital uncompensated care pool
- distribute payments from the pool on the basis of data from the Medicare cost report’s worksheet S-10, phased in over three years.
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