CMS to repay hospitals millions for off-campus clinic visits

(By Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review)

Medicare will soon reimburse hospitals millions of dollars that were withheld over a payment policy dispute, CMS said Dec. 12.

In its final Outpatient Prospective Payment System Rule for 2019, CMS made payments for clinic visits site-neutral by reducing the payment rate for evaluation and management services provided at off-campus provider-based departments by 60 percent.   Continue reading article here…

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