The Congress should increase payment rates for the inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems in 2014 by 1 percent. For inpatient services, the Congress should also require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to use the difference between the statutory update and the recommended 1 percent update to offset increases in payment rates due to documentation and coding changes and to recover past overpayments.
Hospital inpatient and outpatient services
March 15, 2013