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Acute care hospitals will receive a 3.2% inflation update in Medicare payment rates in 2006 for outpatient services under a proposed Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rule announced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a slight change from the 3.3% update in the final rule for 2005. Experts say that when you read between the lines of the latest proposal, the results are quite similar: Not much has changed.

Proposed OPPS rule offers modest changes