9/28/2004: GAO Report: Information Needed to Assess Medicare Rate-Setting Methodology for Hospital Outpatient Payments (U.S. Government Accountability Office [GAO])

39 pages. "The rate-setting methodology used by CMS may result in payment rates for drugs, devices, and other services that do not uniformly reflect hospitals' costs of providing those services, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Sept. 17." [GAO-04-772, Sept. 17, 2004]