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Pain management services have been particularly hard hit by the new ASC payment system. Such commonly reported pain procedures as epidural and facet joint injections have seen payment reductions of about 20 percent for 2008, according to the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, which predicts up to a 40 percent reduction in reimbursement for common pain procedures by the time the new payment rates are fully implemented in 2011.
