Regulations & Reimbursement for Medicare and Medicaid Services

The new regulations that have been imposed, together with further regulatory changes that have been proposed. By the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are motivated by several objectives. The first objective is to improve the quality of patient care outcomes. This approach may appear at first glance to be counter-intuitive, as decreasing or restricting provider reimbursement would not seem to be the best way to m

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