The House Committee on Ways and Means has put forth the “Hospital Improvements for Payment Act of 2014,” which would allow an ASC representative a position on the Advisory Panel on Hospital Outpatient Payment, according to a Regent Surgical Health report.
The 19-member panel meets three times a year to advise CMS on coding, accounting and outpatient business office functions.
The legislation was introduced by Representative Kevin Brady (R-Texas). In addition to giving voice to the ASC industry, the legislation proposes to change Medicare’s two-midnight rule, overhaul the Recovery Audit Contracts program and create a new hospital prospective payment system.
Though of a narrower focus, the “Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2013” contained similar goals, including giving ASCs voice on the Advisory Panel on Hospital Outpatient Payment.
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