MedPAC votes for 1% update.

The article deals with the proposal by the U.S. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to the Congress to increase payment rates for both the hospital inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems by 1% in fiscal 2012. The Commission urges the body to require the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to modify inpatient payment rates in future years to obtain all overpayments that surfaced through documentation and coding changes. However, Joanna Kim of the American Hospital Association stressed their opposition with MedPAC.