Vol. XIII, No. 9Archive > September, 2012
Coding & Billing
Mandatory Quality Reporting Coming to ASCs
Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC
G-CODES? Medicare will pay surgical centers that fail to report quality data G-codes a reduced rate in 2014.Beginning next month, freestanding surgical centers must start reporting data on 5 quality measures on their Medicare claims or face future Medicare payment reductions. The quality measures include 4 adverse events — patient burn, patient fall, wrong site/side/patient/procedure/implant and hospital admission/transfer — and the timing of prophylactic IV antibiotic administration.
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