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Medicare mayhem; Fur flies over wage index policies, use of new MSAs.(The Week In Healthcare)(medicare payments )
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Modern Healthcare
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July 12, 2004
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Byline: Jeff Tieman
Hospitals in three Southern states want HHS to refund more than $260 million they say was lost to a Medicare payment rule that also grabbed the attention of several lawmakers last week.
At issue in both the lawsuit and Congress is a controversial policy under which Medicare uses a wage index to adjust hospital payment rates based on their area labor costs. In Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, 97 hospitals were shortchanged of roughly $261 million in 2003 and 2004 because of the CMS' flawed methods for calculating the wage index, according to a lawsuit the Alabama Hospital Association filed last week in U.S. District Court in Washington.
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