The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expects to pay around $4 billion to ASCs for outpatient services in 2011, according to a preview of its final rule for Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System in the Federal Register, released in late Nov. 2010.
CY 2011 is the first year that revised ASC payment system rates will be fully implemented based on the ASC standard ratesetting methodology. The changes are included in a final rule with comment period which applies updates to policies and payment rates for services in approximately 5,000 Medicare-participating ASCs.
Read the CMS press release on ASC rates for 2011.
Read the CMS Federal Register.
Read more on CMS:
-Congress Acts at Last: No Cuts in Medicare to Anesthesiologists in 2011
-AMA, Physician Groups Call on CMS to Distribute $200M in Overdue Reimbursements to Physicians
-American Society of Anesthesiologists Urges CMS to Consider Small Practices in Creation of ACO Rules
CY 2011 is the first year that revised ASC payment system rates will be fully implemented based on the ASC standard ratesetting methodology. The changes are included in a final rule with comment period which applies updates to policies and payment rates for services in approximately 5,000 Medicare-participating ASCs.
Read the CMS press release on ASC rates for 2011.
Read the CMS Federal Register.
Read more on CMS:
-Congress Acts at Last: No Cuts in Medicare to Anesthesiologists in 2011
-AMA, Physician Groups Call on CMS to Distribute $200M in Overdue Reimbursements to Physicians
-American Society of Anesthesiologists Urges CMS to Consider Small Practices in Creation of ACO Rules