Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the calendar year (CY) 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS), and the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System

CMS Finalizes 2019 Physician & Outpatient Fee Schedules

By TODD A. ZIGRANG

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In the course of twenty-four hours, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the calendar year (CY) 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS), and the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System. The finalized rules generally remained unchanged from their proposed versions, with a couple of exceptions. Each finalized rule is reviewed briefly in this special edition of the Health Capital Topics e-journal. (Read more…) 

https://www.healthcapital.com/hcc/newsletter/11.2.18_Alert/HTML/CMS/convert_hc_topics_alert_mpfs_opps_11.2.18.php

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