MedPAC pushes Congress to require ASC cost data

Becker's Healthcare March 18, 2024
Paige Haeffele

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) in its biannual report recommended that ASCs should be required by Congress to submit cost data.

The report, published March 15, is the first of two that the commission is required to send to Congress each year, analyzing Medicare’s payment policies, service efficiency and care quality and access.

In the report, MedPAC laid out the benefits ASCs provide, including lower costs per procedure for Medicare and lower cost sharing for its beneficiaries. The group contended that because AScs — unlike other medical facilities such as hospital outpatient departments, are...

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