Medicare Payments for Services in Hospital Outpatient Departments.

Provides information about historical Medicare expenditures in outpatient hospitals, and discusses some of the reasons fueling expenditure growth. Explains reimbursement structure for all services covered by Medicare and provided in hospital outpatient departments; and contrasts how hospitals are pa...

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Corporate Authors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1989.
Series:U.S. Congressional Research.
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Summary:Provides information about historical Medicare expenditures in outpatient hospitals, and discusses some of the reasons fueling expenditure growth. Explains reimbursement structure for all services covered by Medicare and provided in hospital outpatient departments; and contrasts how hospitals are paid for services with the systems for paying other types of providers for the same services.
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