WASHINGTON — Health care costs are getting so high that prices are literally running off of the page.
Government-run Medicare on a couple of occasions recently has had to deal with billing forms that don’t provide adequate space for prices.
CMS last month said it was adding two digits to the Government-run Medicare claims processing system for hospital and doctor office charges, called the Fiscal Intermediary Shared System, so that it can now accommodate prices just a penny shy of $100 million.
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