The Office of Inspector General says it will review several issues pertaining to surgery centers, including analyzing the appropriateness of the methodology for setting ASC payment rates under the ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing a 2.6% payment increase for ambulatory surgical centers in an update to the Outpatient Prospective Payment System released Monday. This ...

The Trump administration aims to increase Medicare payment rates for outpatient hospital departments and ambulatory surgical centers by 2.6% and doubles down on a nearly 30% cut to the 340B payment ...

With the shift to value-based healthcare, more procedures are being performed in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). In fact, according to the United States Ambulatory Surgery Center Market Report 2019 ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed updating the outpatient and ambulatory surgical center payment rates by 2.6%, in a proposed rule released on Wednesday. The payment would ...

Under a final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, hospital outpatient facilities and ambulatory surgical centers will get a 2.9% Medicare pay increase next year, up from the ...

Despite potential advantages, there are several shortcomings of the final rule, many of which are derived from the RO-APM payment methodology. Payment is first based on a National Base Rate for each ...