Hospitals might soon be getting a small pay raise from the U.S. government for treating Medicare patients.
In a proposed rule out late Friday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed increasing payments for acute care, which include short stays for non-chronic conditions such as severe injuries or brief illnesses, by 0.8 percent in fiscal 2014, or about $27 million.
Long-term care hospitals that treat patients after they're discharged from acute-care centers would see a 1.1 percent increase, estimated to come to $62 million.
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