Cataract Surgery Accounts For 32% Of $1 Bil. Outpatient Over-Spending – OIG
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Medicare paid roughly $330.4 mil. more for intraocular lens cataract surgery than necessary in 2001 due to unequal payment rates between hospital outpatient departments (OPDs) and ambulatory surgery centers, the HHS Office of Inspector General says in a recent report