Ambulatory Surgical Center Update Largely Follows OIG Code Deletion Advice
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
CMS is proposing to delete 54 of the 72 codes that the Office of the Inspector General recommended be removed from the ambulatory surgical center list of allowable procedures
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