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 regul...
CMS released the calendar year (CY) 2023 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System Final Rule.
For example, there were three instances of wrong side brain surgery at the Rhode Island Hospital in 2007. One time an experienced brain surgeon insisted to a nurse he knew what side of the head to operate on — but got it wrong. Another time, a resident cut into the wrong side of a ...