IOM Offers Additional Ideas To Revamp System Of Geographic Adjustments To Medicare Payments
Modern Healthcare: IOM Offers More Ideas On Geographic Adjustments
The Institute of Medicine supplemented its earlier list of ideas for overhauling the system of geographic adjustments to Medicare payments with four more suggestions today. The latest recommendations, which do not replace the IOM's ideas released in June for improving Medicare's calculation of geographic practice cost indexes, focused on methods of setting the work adjustment, calculating the labor portion in the practice expense and using cost-share weights (Daly, 9/28).