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- Title
Medicare bundles medications into ESRD payments.
- Authors
Thompson, Cheryl A.
- Abstract
The article reports that hospitals are likely to receive higher payments for rendering outpatient maintenance dialysis services to Medicare beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) says that the so-called bundled payment system will add 1.8% or 3.9% to the payments on ESRD facilities. The CMS also said that the roughly 330,000 Medicare beneficiaries receiving outpatient maintenance dialysis will pay 1.2% more. INSET: Medications included in ESRD PPS base rate.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CHRONIC kidney failure; MEDICARE beneficiaries; DIALYSIS facilities; HOSPITAL outpatient prospective payment; CENTERS for Medicare &; Medicaid Services (U.S.); GOVERNMENT policy; MEDICAL care
- Publication
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2010, Vol 67, Issue 19/20, p1580
- ISSN
1079-2082
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2146/news100067