Delays AUC Requirement until 2020, Cuts Off-Campus Hospital Department Payments
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published its final Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS) rule for CY 2018. In addition to updating rates for 2018, the rule includes important policy changes, including an additional delay in implementation of appropriate use criteria (AUC) for advanced diagnostic imaging services and another reimbursement cut for off-campus hospital outpatient departments (although not as deep as proposed). Highlights of the final rule include the following:
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