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tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 22
ASC: CMS Expands Procedure List By 60
More procedures will be covered in ASCs, and planned cuts are canceled.Pressure from ambulatory surgery centers and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) won out over the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' concerns on ASC-covered procedures.The final rule on ASC procedures, published in the May 4 Federal Register, adds more covered procedures than the proposed rule, and deletes fewer procedures. CMS had planned to add only 25 procedures to the covered list, and delete 100 procedures. The HHS Office of Inspector General had identified most of those procedures in a 2003 report as costing more in...
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