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What Is Marginal Profit?

Published on Wed Feb 03, 2016

Get to know the new term that’s helping policymakers decide your fate. “Marginal profit” is a new financial indicator the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is using this year, and it’s higher than the traditional straight profit margin figure. The figure is “the profit margin that can accrue to a provider for seeing the next incremental Medicare beneficiary,” MedPAC Chair [...]
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