tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 18

ASCs: A Good Surgical Procedure Is One You Can Walk Away From, CMS Says

More procedures will be covered in ASCs, and planned cuts are canceledPressure from ambulatory surgery centers and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) won out over the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' concerns on ASC-covered procedures.The final rule on ASC procedures, published in the May 4 Federal Register, adds more covered procedures than the proposed rule, and deletes fewer procedures. CMS had planned to add only 25 procedures to the covered list, and delete 100 procedures. The HHS Office of Inspector General had identified most of those procedures in a 2003 report as costing more in an ASC than...

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