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Take action: Ask your U.S. Representative to support your ASC
Ambulatory Surgery Reimbursement Update, August 7, 2007
The American Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (AAASC) urges you to contact your U.S. Representative immediately. The AAASC wants your Rep to co-sign the ASC Payment Modernization Act (H.R. 1823) in order to show ASCs' lobbying efforts for increased recognition and reimbursement in the healthcare industry.
The AAASC says that H.R. 1823 advises CMS to:
- Permit ASCs to perform/receive Medicare facility payments for certain outpatient surgical services
- Place ASC payments at 75% of the hospital outpatient payment department (HOPD) rate for the same service
- Apply the inflation factor used to update HOPD rates to ASC payments
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