HCFA Updated OPPS List Includes 456 Devices Eligible For Higher Payments
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The Health Care Financing Administration's most recent update to its list of devices eligible for reimbursement under the Medicare outpatient prospective payment system appears to address industry's concern that the system would establish an artificial market for certain devices.
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