2003 OPPS Final Rule Alleviates Payment Reductions For Device Procedures
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Medicare's hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) reimbursement rate for APC 0107 (insertion of cardioverter defibrillators) will decrease by 12% under the 2003 final rule, released Nov. 1
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