CMS issues Medicare outpatient payment rates for 2008

How much will Medicare pay hospitals for outpatient care under the prospective payment system in 2008? CMS has issued a final rule in the Nov. 27 Federal Register. The 647-page document goes into which drugs will receive transitional pass-through payment in 2008; payment rates for blood clotting factors, radiopharmaceuticals, and other products; criteria for packaging payment for drugs; and other areas.

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