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Advising the Congress on Medicare issues
MedPAC > Recommendations > Ambulatory surgical center services

Ambulatory surgical center services

March 13, 2020

The Secretary should also require ambulatory surgical centers to report cost data. For calendar year 2021, in the absence of cost data, the Congress should eliminate the update to the calendar year 2020 Medicare conversion factor for ambulatory surgical centers.

Appeared in: March 2020 - Chapter 5

Topics: Ambulatory care settings.