Medicare payment tool may disadvantage rural patients

(By: Elizabeth Casolo for Becker’s Hospital Review)

A Medicare tool for adjusting risk underpredicts mortality and overpredicts spending for rural beneficiaries, according to research from the Philadelphia-based Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Continue reading here..

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