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OPPS Procedure Payments:

Review These 2016 Procedure Payment Changes

Published on Wed Dec 23, 2015

Some Increase While Others Drop Based On Status Indicator Assignment While all the 2016 payment changes for procedures can be found in Addendums A and B of the OPPS final rule, we list examples of common ED outpatient procedures and a payment comparison between 2015 and 2016. Many of these procedures have a status indicator of Q1 — conditionally packaged [...]
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