{"id":25194,"date":"2025-11-24T09:14:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25194"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:14:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:14:50","slug":"cms-ups-hospital-outpatient-rates-2-6-expands-site-neutral-payments-in-2026-14-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25194","title":{"rendered":"CMS ups hospital outpatient rates 2.6%, expands site-neutral payments in 2026: 14 notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Laura Dyrda and Alan Condon for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CMS on Nov. 21 finalized its Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System rule for 2026, enacting reforms to boost price transparency and expand outpatient access.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/cms-bumps-hospital-outpatient-pay-rates-2-6-in-2026-14-notes\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/cms-bumps-hospital-outpatient-pay-rates-2-6-in-2026-14-notes\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"79\" class=\"wp-image-7780\" style=\"width: 225px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg 382w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo-300x105.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Laura Dyrda and Alan Condon for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) CMS on Nov. 21 finalized its Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6,39],"tags":[80,238,462,61],"class_list":["post-25194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-price-transparency","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-hospital-price-transparency","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25196,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194\/revisions\/25196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}