Medicare program; list of covered surgical procedures for certain ambulatory surgical services--Health Care Financing Administration. Final notice.
Under the final rules published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, reimbursement will be available under Part B of Medicare for ambulatory surgical center (ASC) facility services in connection with certain surgical procedures. For those same procedures, physicians will receive 100 percent reimbursement for providing services in connection with the procedure performed on an ambulatory basis if certain requirements are met. This notice contains the initial list of the surgical procedures pertinent to these reimbursement provisions. Additional procedures will be added and published in the Federal Register, when appropriate.
D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000191:economics*; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States