Improved Access and Lower Costs for Medicare Outpatient Surgery.
This law modernizes Medicare payments for Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCs) to improve service availability and reduce patient costs. The key change limits the maximum patient copayment for ASC procedures to the inpatient hospital deductible amount. It also mandates greater transparency by requiring public comparisons of service quality between ASCs and hospitals.
Key points
Limiting copayments for ASC procedures to the inpatient hospital deductible amount, reducing maximum out-of-pocket costs for Medicare patients.
Mandating the publication of side-by-side quality comparisons between ASCs and hospital outpatient departments on Medicare.gov, aiding patient choice.
Aligning annual payment updates for ASCs with those for hospital outpatient departments, supporting the financial stability and accessibility of ASCs.
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