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Outliers:

CMS Proposes Outlier Safeguards Under New Calculation Method

FDL will increase under time-based system. Medicare officials have already anticipated ways to game the new outlier calculation, and are moving to head them off. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would cap the time that counts toward outliers. It would limit the amount of time per day (summed across the six disciplines of care) to eight hours or [...]
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