CMS' lack of transparency with the ASC-covered list is 'disheartening'

Becker's Healthcare October 30, 2023
Patsy Newitt

Alfonso del Granado, administrator and CEO of Lubbock, Texas-based Covenant High Plains Surgery Centers, joined Becker’s to discuss what’s making him nervous in the healthcare industry currently.

Editor’s note: This response was edited lightly for clarity and length.

Question: What in the healthcare industry is making you nervous right now? Why?

Alfonso del Granado: What’s making me nervous in the healthcare industry right now is Medicare’s continuing refusal to operate in a transparent manner regarding the methodology it uses to move cases to the ASC covered procedures list as well as its rationale for the 255 codes that it took back last year...

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