Brachytherapy Seed Manufacturers Rally For Discrete OPPS Payment Codes
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Medicare should accommodate the variability in prices of radioactive sources when transitioning brachytherapy "pass-through" device costs into the ambulatory payment classification (APC) pool, industry reps testified April 5 at CMS' Baltimore "town hall" meeting on the OPPS update for 2003