Date

January 2013

Topic

Rural Health

Title

Critical Access Hospital

Format

Fact Sheet

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ICN: 006400

Publication Description: This fact sheet is designed to provide education on Critical Access Hospitals (CAH). It includes the following information: background, CAH designation, CAH payments, reasonable cost payment principles that do not apply to CAHs, election of Standard Payment Method or Optional (Elective) Payment Method, Medicare Rural Pass-Through funding for certain anesthesia services, incentive payments, and grants to States under the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program.

Publication Size: 2 MB

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