Hospitals To Evaluate Industry's OPPS Fix, May Develop Alternative Proposal
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Hospitals are asking CMS to provide financial and utilization data on the outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) so they can explore the feasibility of a device industry proposal to transfer new technology "pass-through" payments into ambulatory payment classification groups.
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