OPPS 2017: The 4 Things Labs Need to Know

摘要

While Obamacare as we know it is on borrowed time, the provider payment reforms of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are likely to survive repeal. And on Nov. 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published final rules on a key reform, the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) for 2017. Although hospitals will feel the brunt, OPPS also affects labs and pathologists that treat Medicare patients in an outpatient setting. But the final rule runs hundreds of pages. Rather than slog through all those pages, you can instead review this summary of the four things lab and pathology managers need to know about the final rule.