Becker's Healthcare January 13, 2026
In November, CMS finalized its Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System rule for 2026, which included the addition of 573 codes to the ASC Covered Procedures List.
The update represented a significant advocacy win for the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, which has long pushed for ASC-CPL expansion — especially for spine and, increasingly, cardiovascular procedures.
“Every year, we’re finding there’s more and more procedures that can be performed, on some patients at least, in an outpatient setting,” Bill Prentice, CEO of ASCA, told Becker’s in February 2025. “That’s the trend for a lot of healthcare — moving out of the hospital into different sites of care that are more targeted and more efficient.”
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