News: MedPAC recommends 1% IPPS update for 2012
January 20, 2011
CDI Strategies - Volume 5, Issue 2
In a meeting Thursday, January 13, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended Congress provide a 2.5% update with a 1.5% documentation and coding adjustment (DCA) reduction for a net 1% update for fiscal year 2012 inpatient payments, according to a report from AHA News. (Read the discussion points from the meeting in MedPAC’s slide presentation.)
“While we continue to believe that the coding adjustment for inpatient payments is too high, we are pleased MedPAC did not recommend applying both the coding offset and the productivity cut,” said AHA Vice President for Policy Don May.
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