tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 10

Ambulatory Surgery Centers - MedPAC To Congress: End Surgery Center Payment List

Pushes payment freeze alongside move to expand categoriesIf your physician practices out of an ambulatory surgery center, or your office is connected to one, then the latest set of recommendations from the Medicare Payments Advisory Commission contains some very good news.  Yes, MedPAC did recommend a payments freeze for ASCs through fiscal 2005. But the commission also recommended two sweeping changes in the way Medicare handles ASC payments that could mean good things for physicians. MedPAC encouraged Congress to: Revamp the payment system to bring the relative weights and procedure groups in line with the outpatient prospective payment...

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