HCFA raises the bar on provider-based status
The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has included new regulations in the hospital outpatient hospital prospective payment system (OPPS) final rule that impose more stringent standards on providers that want to be considered as provider-based entities.
The new regulationswhich become effective October 10, 2000were created by HCFA to curb what it sees as abuse of provider-based status for the gain of the main provider, according to Carolyn Zollar, vice president of government relations and policy development at the American Me
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