August 31, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. E.S.T is the deadline to comment on the “Proposed Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and CY 2010 Payment Rates; Proposed Changes to the Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System and CY 2010 Payment” rules published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in the Federal Register today (July 20, 2009).
The Proposed Rule would revise the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) to implement applicable statutory requirements that CMS proposes to apply to services furnished on or after January 1, 2010. It also would update the revised Medicare ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system to implement applicable statutory requirements and changes arising from our continuing experience with this system. If also sets for the applicable relative payment weights and amounts for services furnished in ASCs, specific HCPCS codes to which these proposed changes would apply, and other pertinent rate setting information for the CY 2010 ASC payment system.
To review the proposed rule and for instructions about how to submit comments, see here.
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