AHA Coding Clinic® for HCPCS - 2021 Issue 2; In this Issue

Medicare inpatient-only list update

In the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) final rule for Calendar Year (CY) 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized their proposal to begin to eliminate the inpatient-only (IPO) list. CMS will transition services off the IPO list over a 3-year period, with the list completely eliminated by CY 2024. CMS recognized that stakeholders may need time to adjust to the removal of procedures from the list.The IPO list was established with the implementation of the OPPS in the CY 2000 OPPS/ASC final rule. The IPO list was created to...

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