Transfer provision costing millions, study confirms.
A government study says although hospitals are losing money on the new transfer provision of the proposed prospective payment system, most hospitals are not circumventing the rule by compromising patient care or keeping Medicare patients in the 10 affected diagnosis-related groups longer than medically necessary.
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