Staff summarized findings from a literature review on factors that drive hospital costs. MACPAC discussed the Medicaid payment methodologies used for inpatient and outpatient hospital services and clarified the distinction between hospital cost, defined as the resources that hospitals expend to provide care, and Medicaid hospital spending, defined as the payments Medicaid makes for those services.
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Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission