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Medicare Hospital Payment: PPS Includes Several Policies Intended to Help Rural Hospitals

HEHS-00-174R Published: Sep 15, 2000. Publicly Released: Sep 15, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the scope and efficacy of Medicare's existing rural hospital inpatient payment policies, focusing on the major special payment provisions available to rural hospitals under the prospective payment system (PPS) and to provide information on the inpatient financial performance of these hospitals under PPS.

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Health care programsHealth insuranceHealth services administrationHospitalsRural hospitalsMedical services ratesMedicarePatient care servicesProspective paymentsBeneficiaries