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amount ($10,000) and the outlier payment amount ($29,540). IPPS Outlier Payment Policy Changes In the 2003 IPPS Final Rule, CMS made changes to its outlier payment
Obviously 90 is the outlier. With it in there, the mean is 67.5, and the median is 63.5 (halfway between 63 and 64). If you take the 90 out, the new average is 63, and the median is also 63. So basically, it affects mean more because when dealing with median it doesn't matter what the actual value of the outlier is.