Separate APC Category For Thermal Ablation Not Appropriate – CMS Panel
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
CMS should avoid creating new APC categories under the hospital outpatient prospective payment system that are geared towards a specific device, the agency's APC Advisory Panel maintains
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