Hospital outpatient providers to see $6.5 billion Medicare pay bump

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will increase hospital outpatient provider reimbursement by $6.5 billion next year, the agency said late Tuesday in the 2023 Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule.

The regulation also offered more detail on the agency’s rural emergency hospital program, which will offer a 5% Medicare reimbursement boost for covered outpatient services and an average facility fee payment of nearly…