New ASC Payment System: Is That All There Is?

1 ASCs would receive only 62 percent of the HOPD rates; 2 The new payment rates would be phased in over a two-year transition period; 3 An inadequate expansion of the ASC list; 4 ASCs would be tied to different inflation factors than hospitals; 5 Many procedures would be capped at office-based rates; Fair and equitable payment rates?; AAASC. Here's; APC; ASC; ASC List; ASC Payment Proposed; ASC. These; ASCs; AV; Act's; Ambulatory Surgery; Ambulatory Surgery Centers; American Association; Analyze; Asked, CMS No Medicare; Association; Beginning; Bryant; CMS; CMS No Medicare; CMS's; CPT; Centers; Congress; Consumer Price Index; Fewer; Foundation; GI; HOPD; High-volume Procedures Code Descriptor Current ASC Payment Proposed; IV; Index; List; Losers Code Descriptor Current ASC Payment Proposed; McDermott; Medicare; Medicare Modernization Act's; Medicare's; Modernization Act's; Mr. Romansky; Mr. Zimmerman. New; Ms. Bryant; No Medicare; OPPS; OPPS. CMS; Office Medicare; Payment; Payment Proposed; Percutaneous; Place; Price Index; Procedures; Procedures Code Descriptor Current ASC Payment Proposed; Proctosigmoidoscopy; Put; Reposition; Romansky; Surgery; Surgery Centers; Treatment; Winners; Winners Code Descriptor Current ASC Payment Proposed; Worse; Zimmerman; Zimmerman. New; ability; acknowledges; add; add'l; add-on; added; adding; addition; adjustments; admitting; advisors; advocated; affect; agency; aggregate; ahead; all-inclusive; already-low; altogether; ambulatory; ameliorate; amount; amounts; anal; analysis; ankle; annual; annually; apologies; appropriately; approved; argued; arterial; asks; associations; average; back; balance; base; basically; basis; basket; beginning; begins; beneficiaries; benefit; biggest; blended; blockage; blood; blow; bone; breast; budget; budget-neutral; buy; calculate; cap; capital; capped; case; cath; center; cheaper; cheek; chilling; clinical; cochlear; code; comment; common; commonly; community; competition; considered; control; conversion; convert; correct; cost; counting; criteria; current; days; decided; decrease; decreases; department; descriptor; detached; determine; determines; devices; differences; dilate; director; disappointed; disk; dismissed; disruption; dollar; dramatic; driven; drug; dx; effect; effective; efficient; efficiently; elbow; eliminate; emanates; emphasis; enacted; ensure; equal; equipment; equitable; established; establishing; exceed; excessive; exclude; excludes; excluding; executive; exempt; existing; expand; expanding; expansion; expected; expects; expense; expires; eye; eyelid; facilities; facility; fact; factor; fair; fee; final; financial; find; finger; firm; five-year; flat; flow; four-year; freeze; full; furnish; gastrostomy; generally; give; good; government; greatly; groups; happy; healthcare; hernia; high; high-volume; higher; highest; hire; hoped; hospital; hospital-ASC; hospital-only; hospitals; hours; hundreds; imbalance; impact; implant; implement; implemented; implementing; inadequate; inappropriately; incentive; inception; included; including; increase; incredulous; index; indicator; individual; industry; ineligible; inexpensive; inflation; infusion; innovative; inpatient; institutional; interpretation; jaw; knee; l/s; law; lawyer; left; leg; legitimacy; lesion; lesser; letdowns; level; limited; limits; linked; list; literally; lobbyist; long-awaited; longstanding; lost; low; lower; lower-intensity; made; major; make; making; management; market; maximum; measurement; measures; medical; meet; meetings; members; message; methodology; migration; millions; mix; modernize; modified; move; multiplied; narrow; national; non-facility; notes; number; nurses; obliged; offers; office; office-based; offices; operate; ophthalmology; opportunity; options; order; originally; orthopedic; outpatient; overnight; paid; pain; parallel; paralleled; parallels; partner; passed; past; patient; pay; payable; paying; payment; pays; pedestal; perceived; percent; percentage; perform; performance; performed; period; perpendicular; persuade; phased; photodynamic; physician; plan; planning; policy; pose; practice; preference; president; primarily; procedure; procedures; program; promoting; proposal; proposed; proposes; proposing; prospective; providing; public; published; pump; punishing; purchased; put; rad; range; rate; rates; reaches; reasons; recalculate; receive; recognize; recommended; recovery; reduce; reduction; regulation; regulatory; reimbursed; reimbursement; reimburses; relationship; relative; remove; repair; reports; representatives; requests; require; requirement; requiring; resource-utilization-related; resources; result; retain; retina; retinal; revamped; revenue; revised; rightsized; risk; rule; safe; safely; safety; safety-related; sake; salary; schedule; selected; sends; service; set; setting; short; short-sighted; sigmoidoscopy; significant; simply; single; site-of-service; sites; slightly; slights; snubs; soften; specialize; specializing; spending; spinal; spine; spring; stands; starting; statute; stopped; streamline; subject; submit; submucous; subsequently; substantially; suggested; suggests; surgeons; surgery; surgical; system; systems; techniques; technology; tenets; theory; ther; threaten; threshold; tied; time; today; totally; trade; transition; transparency; tunnel; two-thirds; two-year; type; unacceptably; unadjusted; unwarranted; update; upper; urged; urine; urology; validate; variation; vary; venous; viability; voiced; volumes; w/scope; wage; wanted; warrant; weights; word; worry; worth; wound/lesion; writes; wrong; year; years