Health Affairs October 21, 2025
Health Affairs’ Rob Lott interviews Matthew Maughan of Brown University about his paper exploring how commercial insurers paid more for procedures at hospital outpatient departments as compared to ambulatory surgical centers.
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Rob Lott:
Hello, and welcome to a health podocy. I’m your host, Rob Lott. Among the most frequently proposed reforms to the Medicare program is that of site neutral payment. This is the idea, driven by pretty compelling evidence that Medicare pays a lot more for a procedure conducted within a hospital outpatient department compared to the very same procedure conducted in an ambulatory surgical center. And to be clear,...
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