Watchdog group says Medicare overpaying nursing homes by $1


The nursing home industry is getting an extra $1.5 billion next year from Medicare despite a call from an independent Medicare advisory panel that reimbursement has been inflated for the past three years and needs to be scaled back, a Medicare watchdog group says. The overpayment is happening even though the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, MedPAC, an independent advisory group to Congress, ...

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