The study is required by the state’s 2012 workers’ compensation reform law. The RAND study did not provide support for allowing any procedures from the “inpatient only” list to be performed in the outpatient setting, except perhaps certain types of spinal fusion.
Bryce Docherty, a lobbyist for the California Ambulatory Surgery Association, argued against the study’s findings. “Many health insurers do pay for total hip and knee replacements in outpatient surgery centers,” he said in the report.
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