tci Part B Insider - 2008 Issue 2

AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTERS: CMS Confirms ASCs Can Collect From Medicare for Brachytherapy

Just before 2007 ended, CMS offered ambulatory surgery centers a New Year's surprise--ending rampant speculation about whether ASCs can bill Medicare for brachytherapy services that their physician-owners order and that their ASC provides.The confusion existed -because brachytherapy sources are subject to the Stark self-referral prohibition as a radiation therapy supply that, under the new ASC payment system, will be reimbursed separate from the ASC facility fee and, thus, will not be eligible for the exception to the Stark law for facility fee items and services,- according to a Dec. 20 news clarification from Kathy Bryant, chief executive...

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