2022 Proposed OPPS Rule: New Recommendations for the Outpatient Setting
August 4, 2021 Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2022 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System Proposed Rule (PR). To help explain the PR, the agency also released an extensive fact sheet summarizing the massive set of proposals. The following will provide some of the key highlights arising from this CMS synopsis. Price Transparency On January 1, 2021, the Hospital Price Transparency final rule became effective, implementing…