CMS holds firm on disputed two-midnight pay cut to hospitals

Modern Healthcare (complimentary online subscription): The CMS is standing behind the inpatient payment cut to hospitals imposed under the two-midnight rule despite ongoing battles with hospitals over the reduction.It's a stance that doesn't bode well for hospitals' efforts to persuade courts to reverse the reduction, legal experts say. The CMS made its position clear in a notice and request for comment published Tuesday in the Federal Register in response to a federal judge's September ruling.

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