OPPS

For more information on the 2021 OPPS final rule, including changes to supervision for therapy services and payment rates, see...

The proposed rule also introduces many new codes and status indicator changes that stakeholders need to carefully review carefully to...

This rule places decisions about supervision in the control of hospitals and physicians involved in patient care and will make...

Hospitals had asked the court that vacated the 2019 rule to enforce its decision against the 2020 rule as well....

The administration agreed to comply with a federal judge's order that vacated site-neutral payment provisions of OPPS 2019, but it...

The government is moving forward with 'the second year of a two-year phase-in,' even though a judge vacated the policy...

The latest ruling opens the door to a possible appeal by the Trump administration, which has argued it has the...

The American Hospital Association submitted a 66-page comment to the proposed OPPS changes for 2020.

A federal judge vacated the CMS policy, saying the agency overstepped its legal authority in making the payment cut to...

Changes set to take effect next month will result in a significant reimbursement reduction for hospital-owned outpatient departments that would...

Many hospitals are instructing surgeons to schedule all Medicare total knee arthroplasties as outpatient procedures.

The policy change constitutes a 40% reduction for some hospital outpatient departments.