Here’s what you should know:
1. Denver Surgery Center is managed by Lakewood, Colo.-based Pinnacle III.
2. Surgery center representatives spoke on an array of issues including:
- Switching the Medicare inflationary update factor from the Consumer Price Index to the hospital market basket
- Requiring CMS to post ASC and HOPD quality metrics online in a comparative manner
- Adding an ASC advocate to the Advisory Panel on Hospital Outpatient Payment
- Requiring CMS to disclose the criteria it considers for ambulatory payment classification
- Closing the colonoscopy loophole
3. The surgery center also took the candidates on a tour of the center, highlighting the safety, cost and quality options.
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