In general, Medicare direct GME payments are calculated by multiplying the hospital's updated PRA by the weighted number of FTE residents working in all areas of the hospital complex (and at non-provider sites, when applicable), and the hospital's Medicare share of total inpatient days
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As discussed in the proposed rule (90 FR 33799), we believe the inclusion of the name of a hospital senior official will provide CMS actionable and enforceable certainty, and MRF users additional assurance, including in situations where the hospital's payer-specific negotiated charge is based on a contractual algorithm, percentage, or formula by which a hospital genuinely cannot specify a dollar amount, that the data were reviewed and verified by the ( hospital's leadership, and would expedite our ability to quickly identify an individual at the hospital to obtain, where necessary, further clarity regarding the MRF data
The commenter indicated that the cardiac MRI procedures are more resource intensive because of stress protocols, continuous patient monitoring, specialized staff to care for patients undergoing these procedures, longer procedure room time, and post-stress observation time and many of the other procedures that are in these APCs are lower-acuity, non-cardiac tests
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