Medpac recommendation: Adjust Medicare’s hospital inpatient payments to recoup overpayments
Modern Healthcare: “The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is recommending that Congress further adjust Medicare’s hospital inpatient payments over three years to recover overpayments that have resulted from recent documentation and coding changes.” MedPAC also “called for the same recommendation as last year: to increase payment rates for inpatient and outpatient hospital services at the full…

