Medicare pushes site-neutral payments to hospitals

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The most important policy in Medicare’s recent outpatient regulations is the reduction in drugs that hospitals receive under the 340B discount program. But the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has cleverly reinforced another key policy that hospitals hate.

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