This article reports that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has published its final rule regarding the outpatient hospital prospective payment system of Medicare on November 1, 2002. The rule increases payment rates to hospital outpatient departments by 3.7%, effective January 1, 2003. ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has announced its proposed rules for the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment (“OPPS”) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (“ASC”) Payment Systems, as well as its calendar year (CY) 2024 proposed Physician Fee Schedule (“PFS”), ...
CMS released the calendar year (CY) 2023 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System Final Rule.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the calendar year (CY) 2025 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System Proposed Rule (CMS-1809-P), which includes proposals to update payment rates, policies and regu...
The payment updates in the CY 2025 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) payment system final rule were based on the projected hospital market basket percentage increase of 3.4% reduced by a 0.5 percentage-point productivity adjustment, CM...
(CMS) issued its final Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System rule for 2025, which implements the Non-Opioids Prevent Addiction in the Nation (NOPAIN) Act that mandated separate Medicare payment for qualifying...
December has been a busy month for hospitals following the rollout of CMS’s clinic visit site-neutrality adjustments. This policy, partially implemented in the CMS Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) FY 2019 Final Rule, expanded the cuts to OPPS rates that Congress ordered in Section 603...
The agency issued the2024 HospitalOutpatient Prospective Payment Systemand2024Physician Fee Scheduleproposed rules, both of which are expected to be finalized this fall. Glaukos could be the biggest beneficiary of the proposals among device makers, with an increase in outpatient facility fee rates likel...
[15] Likewise, the agency announced a separate fix to the payment errors caused by its outpatient prospective payment system policy that reduced hospital reimbursement for 340B drugs because the Supreme Court found that the agency failed to follow the statutory in...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced new measures to enhance access to behavioral health services for Medicare beneficiaries and improve hospital price transparency as part of the final rule for the calendar year 2024 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulato...