The calculator is housed in an Excel document on the ASCA homepage and allows ASCs to calculate local rates by inserting their local wage index.
For each CPT code, the 2012 national payment rate and the local payment rate are shown, in addition to the wage adjusted Medicare payment portion and wage adjusted patient payment portion.
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