Improving Quality and Access to Outpatient Surgeries under Medicare
This act aims to improve access to outpatient surgeries, enhance their quality, and increase transparency for patients. Changes may reduce costs for patients and provide better comparisons of facilities.
Key points
Aligning payments for ambulatory surgical centers with hospital outpatient departments, potentially impacting service availability.
Increased transparency of quality data: patients will be able to compare ambulatory surgical centers and hospitals in the same geographic area on Medicare.gov.
Limiting patient out-of-pocket costs for outpatient procedures to the inpatient hospital deductible amount, potentially reducing patient expenses.
Requiring justification for excluding procedures from the approved outpatient surgery list, increasing process transparency.
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