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Acumentra Health
Oregon Hospitals Achieve Medicare Reporting Benchmark for Third Straight Year
October 17th, 2008
Acumentra Health, Oregon's Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO), announced that, for the third year in a row, all Oregon hospitals that receive payment from Medicare under the acute-care, inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) qualified for full payment for their services billed to Medicare. Only 20 other states had all of their hospitals qualify for full payment. Oregon's 33 PPS hospitals--which include urban hospitals as well as 9 rural facilities--are required under Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 regulations to meet specific data reporting and validation criteria in order to receive full Medicare payment (called the Annual Payment Update, or APU). All...
Source: Health Business Week (2008-10-17)
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