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  "id": 90945,
  "title": "Medicare finalizes 2.3% hospital inpatient pay raise for 2027",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/medicare-finalizes-2-3-hospital-inpatient-pay-raise-for-2027",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-03T12:33:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Healthcare Dive",
    "slug": "healthcare-dive",
    "url": "https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/medicare-finalizes-hospital-inpatient-pay-raise-2027/826794/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Regulators also finalized the first nationwide, mandatory payment model to reduce the cost of joint replacements starting in 2028. Hospitals said the pay raise was inadequate, and chafed at the mandatory nature of the new model.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}