Meet outpatient quality reporting requirements or prepare for a payment reduction. Using Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) methodology, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) based 2019 OPPS payments on 2017 claims data submitted by hospital providers, resulting in an estimated 1.35 percent increase. Hospitals that fail to meet the hospital outpatient quality […]
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