Becker's Healthcare December 4, 2023
In its final rule, CMS added 11 procedures to the ASC-covered list that were not included in the proposed rule, including total shoulder arthroplasty.
Bill Prentice, CEO of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, and Kara Newbury, the organization’s director of government affairs and regulatory counsel, laid out the association’s journey in getting those procedures added in an episode of its Advancing Surgical Care Podcast, released Nov. 15.
The addition of total shoulder arthroscopy to the list, according to Mr. Prentice, was the “result of the substantial advocacy effort on the part of ASCA and our members.”
“I can’t overstate what a change this was from the proposed rule to the final rule,” Mr. Prentice said on the podcast....
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