Becker's Healthcare September 14, 2022
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association has submitted comments on Medicare’s 2023 proposed payment rule Sept. 13, urging CMS to update several aspects of the rule, according to an email shared with Becker’s.
Here are the five key points of the comments:
1. CMS should use the hospital market basket as the annual update for ASC payments, as Medicare volume data has been skewed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2. CMS should discontinue the ASC weight scalar. Removing the secondary scaling adjustment is...