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More Specific Device Cost Data May Inform Medicare Inpatient Payments In FY 2014

CMS says it is finally ready to start relying on a specific cost-report line that it created five years ago for implantable devices, as well as distinct lines for cardiac catheterizations, CT scans and MRIs established more recently, to calculate hospital inpatient payments. It’s a positive for implantables and a negative for advanced imaging payments.

Medicare payments for inpatient implantable device procedures will get a boost if CMS goes through with its fiscal year 2014 proposal to rely on cost data more specific to those devices.

But a similar proposal from the Medicare agency would have a negative payment impact on certain imaging procedures that employ...

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