We also use the statewide average default CCRs to determine payments for hospitals whose CCR falls outside the predetermined ceiling threshold for a valid CCR or for hospitals in which the most recent cost report reflects an all-inclusive rate status (Medicare Claims Processing Manual (Pub
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We believe that using the Medicare transfer-adjusted case counts would be a reasonable approach to combining the data across hospitals because it would reflect relative volume and transfer activity (that is, larger hospitals responsible for more discharges would be weighted more heavily in the calculation, hospitals that transfer more often would be weighted less heavily)
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