title: The financial effect of ambulatory payment classifications.
abstract: The implementation of ambulatory payment classifications will have a tremendous effect on ambulatory surgery centers. Whereas it will reduce reimbursements on widely performed procedures, such as cataract removal, it will increase reimbursements on others in such a way that it may spur the growth of new, single-specialty surgery centers.
authors.affiliation: Surgery Centers of America II, LLC, Edmond, OK, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McLelland
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000145:classification* / Q000191:economics; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D003363:Cost Control; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011445:Prospective Payment System / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013531:Surgicenters / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States