The report recommended Congress eliminate ASC payment updates for 2014 and require ASCs to submit cost data. MedPAC also asked that a value-based purchasing program for ASCs be developed by 2016, according to the report.
At the same time, the report recommended Congress increase inpatient and outpatient hospital prospective payment systems by 1 percent. MedPAC also recommended sustainable growth rate repeal, replaced with a “10-year path of statutory fee-schedule updates.”
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