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Advising the Congress on Medicare issues
MedPAC > Recommendations > Options for slowing the growth of Medicare fee-for-service spending for emergency department services

Options for slowing the growth of Medicare fee-for-service spending for emergency department services

June 14, 2019

The Secretary should develop and implement a set of national guidelines for coding hospital emergency department visits under the outpatient prospective payment system by 2022.

Appeared in: June 2019 - Chapter 11

Topics: Hospital.