CMS: Site-Neutral Exemptions Don’t Preclude Cuts To Clinic Visit Pay

The federal government says cutting the pay rates for clinic visits at certain off-campus hospital outpatient facilities is well within CMS’ authority, and the law exempting those facilities from other site-neutral payments doesn’t limit CMS’ ability to change the pay rates for services to control volume. “While Congress intervened to halt the proliferation of new off-campus OPDs in 2015, it did not address once and for all the problem of Medicare having to pay significantly more for certain services, like...