CMS: Updated ASC Payment System

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will soon issue CR5994: “April 2008 Update to the ASC Payment System; Summary of Payment Policy Changes.”

This Recurring Update Notification describes changes to, and billing instructions for, payment policies implemented in the April 2008 ASC update. This update provides updated payment rates for selected separately payable drugs and biologicals and provides rates and descriptors for newly created Level II HCPCS codes for drugs and biologicals.

More information and downloads can be found on the CMS Web site here.

Source: CMS

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