Outpatient Prospective Payment Systems (OPPS)
CMS generally makes payment for hospital outpatient department services through the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS).
On Nov. 1, the CMS released the calendar year 2017 outpatient prospective payment system/ambulatory surgical center final rule.
The CMS late yesterday issued a final rule updating the hospital outpatient prospective payment system and implementing the site-neutral provisions of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.
On Nov. 1, the CMS released the calendar year 2017 outpatient prospective payment system/ambulatory surgical center final rule.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a final rule updating hospital outpatient prospective payment system rates by 1.65% in 2017 compared to 2016. The rule also implements Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, which requires that, with the exception of…
The CMS as early as this afternoon could release its final rule for the calendar year 2017 outpatient prospective payment system.
CMSs final rule appropriately recognizes that providing no payment to new off-campus hospital clinics for the services they provide to patients was an untenable policy.
This week Congress overwhelmingly urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide flexibility for hospital outpatient departments as it implements the site-neutral provisions in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 in its upcoming final rule for the hospital outpatient prospective…
As you know, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published on July 6 its calendar year 2017 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) proposed rule for implementing Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, "Treatment of off-campus outpatient departments of a provider…