Cms proposes policy, payment rate changes for services in hospital outpatient departments and
ambulatory surgical centers in 2010 Hospitals would be able to bill Medicare for pulmonary and intensive cardiac rehabilitation services furnished in outpatient departments beginning January 1, 2010 under a proposed rule issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The proposed rule would also provide for payments to rural hospitals for kidney disease education services furnished in their outpatient departments for Medicare beneficiaries with Stage IV chronic kidney disease. [more...]
