BBA Relief Act Seeks By-Category Device Grouping Under Outpatient PPS
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A two-to-three year transitional payment period for pass-through devices in a category-based system under the Health Care Financing Administration's hospital outpatient prospective payment system would begin once the first device from an individual category receives payment.
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