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Re:Direct Primary Care by maxerickson on Monday January 09, 2017 @09:50AM (#13356667)
Medicare reimburses some smaller facilities at a higher rate than other facilities.

"critical access hospital" is a good search term. Basically every small town hospital that has an ER.

Another term is "rural health clinic"

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Re:Direct Primary Care by atlasmd on Monday January 09, 2017 @08:35PM (#13361768)
to help clarify this -- they pay 1% more than the normal rate. to CAH's

https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/topics/critical-access-hospi...

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Re:Direct Primary Care by maxerickson on Monday January 09, 2017 @10:00PM (#13362183)
The 101% of cost reimbursement is a different payment model than used for bigger hospitals (Prospective Payment Systems https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-paymen... ).

And no one else pays anywhere near 100% of 'reasonable costs' (they pay more, or in the case of Medicaid, less). So I wouldn't call it the normal rate.

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