Month: September 2023

We appreciate this opportunity to submit comments on behalf of five leading ophthalmology organizations with regard to CMS-1772-P, Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs; Organ Acquisition; Rural Emergency Hospitals: Payment Policies, Conditions of Participation, Provider Enrollment, Physician Self-Referral; New Service Category for Hospital Outpatient Department Prior Authorization Process; Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating. Collectively, the members of our societies are responsible for performing the vast majority of all ophthalmic surgical procedures performed in the US, most of which, in the ophthalmic ASC setting…