Becker's Healthcare January 14, 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.
This was a huge win for the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, which has long advocated for an ASC-CPL expansion.
ASC-level data on the safety and effectiveness of outpatient procedures within the Medicare population were essential to ASCA’s advocacy efforts, Kara Newbury, ASCA’s advocacy chief, told Becker’s.
“We had a spine surgeon in the ASC space who was able to perform a lot of the lumbar fusion codes during the COVID-19 pandemic when CMS created a Hospital Without Walls Program, as that allowed ASCs to expand...
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