Medicare Reimbursement Information III
Today, we will focus on hospital care outside of the traditional Inpatient hospital care setting. Again, this information is culled from MedPAC reports. Outpatient Hospital Services Outpatient hospital care, from injections to complex procedures, accounted for $19 billion of total Medicare spending in 2007 Originally, outpatient reimbursement was cost based and copayments amounted to about…