Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
Program Memo Roundup
Published on Thu Mar 18, 2004
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services handed out marching orders to fiscal intermediaries Feb. 27 on upcoming changes to the hospital outpatient prospective payment system. In two recent program transmittals (change requests 3144 and 3145), CMS lays out updated ambulatory payment classification payment amounts and OPPS changes relating to drugs, biologicals and radiopharmaceuticals.
In other recent program transmittals, CMS:
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