On Nov. 1, CMS issued a final rule for the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System. In accordance with Medicare law, CMS is updating OPPS rates for hospitals that meet applicable quality reporting requirements by 2.6 percent. This update is based on the projected hospital market basket...
On July 29, CMS published the proposed Physician Fee Schedule Rule for the 2020 Outpatient Prospective Payment System. The proposed changes encourage site-neutral payment between certain Medicare sites of services as well as proposing updates and policy changes under the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System. According...