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On August 4, 2020, CMS posted the Hospital Outpatient Prospective System (“OPPS”) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (“ASC”) Proposed Rule for CY 2021. The Proposed Rule will be published in the Federal Register on August 12 and comments are due by October 5, 2020. The Fact Sheet for the proposed rule can be found here.... READ MORE

CMS Releases Proposed Outpatient Pay Rule On July 25, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued the Medicare hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (“OPPS”) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (“ASC”) proposed rule for Calendar Year 2019, which contains an annual payment rate increase of 1.25 percent. Most significantly, the proposed rule would expand the... READ MORE

The Cures Act addresses certain electronic health record (“EHR”) difficulties faced by physicians who practice primarily in ambulatory surgery centers (“ASCs”). Section 16003 explicitly excludes physicians who furnish substantially all of their Medicare services at ASCs from the penalties imposed under various programs for failure to adopt a certified EHR. Under the current Medicare... READ MORE