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Advising the Congress on Medicare issues
MedPAC > Recommendations > Reducing beneficiary coinsurance under the hospital outpatient prospective payment systems

Reducing beneficiary coinsurance under the hospital outpatient prospective payment systems

March 1, 2001

Congress should continue the reduction in outpatient coinsurance to achieve a 20 percent coinsurance rate by 2010.

Appeared in: March 2001 - Chapter 9

Topics: Beneficiaries and coverage and Hospital.