NOV 13, 2014
CMS Broadens Bundles for Outpatient Facility Payments Despite Academy Objections
By Chantay Moye
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released in October its 2015 Outpatient Prospective Payment Schedule and Ambulatory Surgical Services final rule. Despite warnings from the Academy concerning implications of adequate facility payments, CMS finalized a proposal to restructure all ophthalmic ambulatory payment classifications, which are used as the basis for facility payments.