BC Advantage - 2018 Issue 5

TKAs to Outpatient What We Have Learned with Q1

The release of the 2018 Final Rule for the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) in November 2017 has created quite a stir across the orthopedic healthcare community. In what has been deemed a questionable decision, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) decided to remove Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) from the inpatient-only surgical list beginning January 1, 2018. Many hospital executives are asking, "How does this affect our bottom line regarding the inpatient orthopedic surgery program?" The problem is that the answer may take some time to decipher. One thing we do know is that facility...

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