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“However, if your setting is paid a bundled amount, like every other hospital, stay because your hospital uses the IPF PPS contracting system, and there is an add-on payment to account for the cost of treatment like SAINT —the New Technology Add-on Payment system (NTAP) under medicare—it makes all the financial sense in the world to do the new thing. You get paid more. You probably get the patient out the door faster. That's better for them, and it's better for your hospital financially.”