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New ASC Payment System: Is That All There Is?

The government's proposed overhaul of how surgical centers are reimbursed would leave ASCs hungry for more.

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

Medicare makes no apologies if its proposed ASC payment policy shortchanges, slights or snubs surgical centers. The agency says it set forth the major tenets of its revamped reimbursement plan in the name of budget neutrality:

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