Public Inspection: CMS: Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs; New Categories for Hospital Outpatient Department Prior Authorization Process; Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule: Laboratory Date of Service Policy; Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating Methodology; and Physician-owned Hospitals

Pre-publication notice of proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services revising the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center (ACS) payment system for calendar year 2021. Also updates and refines the requirements for the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR) Program and the ASC Quality Reporting (ASCQR) Program, as well as establishes and updates the Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating beginning with the 2021 calendar year, among other things. Includes rural references throughout. Comments on the proposed changes are due on October 5, 2020.
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - Category: Rural Health Source Type: news