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Advising the Congress on Medicare issues
MedPAC > Recommendations > Providers Exempt from the Acute Care Prospective Payment System (A)

Providers Exempt from the Acute Care Prospective Payment System (A)

March 1, 1999

To update and improve payments to providers exempt from the acute care prospective payment system, the Secretary should increase the market basket amount in the target amount update formula by 0.4 percentage points for fiscal year 2000.

Appeared in: March 1999 - Chapter 4

Topics: Hospital.