Imaging Caths Illuminate “Weak Spot” In CMS Packaging Policy – APC Panel
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Makers of high-cost devices that play an ancillary role in medical procedures got a small victory March 5 when CMS' Ambulatory Payment Classification advisory panel recommended that the agency exempt two such technologies from its outpatient "packaging" policy
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