The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule should increase each year tied to the rate of medical inflation, while payments for inpatient rehabilitation and home healthcare should be cut, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) reiterated Monday in its June report to Congress. “To bring fee-for-service Medicare’s overall payment levels closer in line with providers’ costs, the commission … recommends slightly increasing (above current law) payment rates for the hospital outpatient and inpatient prospective payment systems and the Physician Fee Schedule, modestly decreasing payment rates for outpatient dialysis services and hospice services, and substantially decreasing payment rates for post-acute care providers,” the authors wrote.
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Source: https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/medicare/121750