Payment Methods for Certain Cancer Hospitals Should Be Revised to Promote Efficiency, Government Accountability Office, February 2015
To control costs and reward efficiency, Medicare pays the majority of hospitals under PPSs, which make payments on the basis of the clinical classification of each service. In response to concerns that cancer hospitals would experience payment reductions under a PPS, beginning in 1983, Congress required the establishment of criteria under which 11 PCHs are […]