Becker's Healthcare July 10, 2019
It’s only a matter of time before revenue-generating cardiology cases shift from hospitals to ASCs, a transition that has great implications for Medicare costs, according to Ronald Hirsch, MD, who wrote an analysis on the matter for the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
Eight takeaways from his paper:
1. CMS added 17 cardiac procedures, including left and right heart catheterization and cardiac angiography, to the list of ASC-approved procedures in 2019.
2. In 2016, outpatient hospital settings performed more than 523,000 cardiac catheterizations on Medicare beneficiaries using the CPT codes that are now approved for ASCs. This amounted to an estimated $682 million in Medicare payments.
3. Coronary angiography and interventions such as stent placements are often performed electively. Previously, Medicare...
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