CMS to expand ASC list of covered procedures with transcatheter services
Effective Sep 9, 2010
Published Sep 9, 2010
You would have the option of providing transcatheter occlusion and placement of an intravascular stent procedures at ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) under a CMS proposed rule. CMS is planning to add transcatheter procedures 37204-37206 to the list of new ASC covered surgical procedures for 2011, according to Proposed Changes to the ASC Payment System and 2011 Payment Rates. CMS also wants to add 37210 (laser enuclearion of prostate, $3,452.41) and 50593 (uterine fibroid emolization, $4,590.31).
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