Medicare Payment Roundup: Pass-Through Reforms, Packaging And More
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Key device updates in CMS's latest payment rules include reforms to the hospital outpatient pass-through payment process for new technology, the agency's continued march forward on "comprehensive" outpatient procedure payments, scaled-back physician cuts for radiation oncology and reimbursement for transoral GERD procedures.
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