Surgical Center, Outpatient Proposed Payments May Lowball Device Costs
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
AdvaMed is urging CMS to provide device add-on payments for certain ambulatory surgical center (ASC) procedures in 2007 to bring total payments closer to those in the hospital outpatient setting
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