Recommendations Regarding Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals
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In general, we agree that improving the accuracy of IPPS payment rates would be desirable. While the emergence of specialty hospitals makes pointed the need for such improvement, we believe such changes should be desirable in any case. Consequently, we are already proceeding to analyze the options MedPAC has discussed. We expect to fully analyze and simulate the changes so we can explore the impacts on hospitals. Consequently, we have addressed this matter briefly in the preamble to the notice of proposed rulemaking for the FY 2006 update to the IPPS to put the public on notice of our plans. After completing further analysis, we will consider proposing appropriate changes in those areas that are subject to regulation in the notice of proposed rulemaking for the FY 2007 update. We expect to publish this notice in April 2006 and make any resulting changes, after considering public comment, effective starting in October 2006.
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