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Mandatory Patient Experience Evaluation Reporting (OAS CAHPS) Commences in January 2025: Penalties Could Await Surgery Centers that are Not in Compliance!

Final 2025 ASC Payment Regulation: Facility Fees to Increase by 2.9 Percent

Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs

OOSS Continues to Urge CMS to Reject Prior Authorization Demonstration Project

CMS Issues Proposed 2025 ASC Payment Rule: Update of 2.6 percent

OOSS Joins Ophthalmology Community in Presentation Before Medicare Carriers on Proposed Local Coverage Determinations Regarding MIGS

Ophthalmic ASC Waste Reduction and Recycling Practices

Medicare Contractors Propose Revised Local Coverage Determination on MIGS

Prior Authorization Demonstration for Certain Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Services (CMS-10884)

OOSS Requests Members’ Feedback on Current Recycling Practices ASCs

OOSS Issues Position Statement Regarding Surgical Drapes

Final 2024 ASC Payment Regulation:  Cataract Facility Fee Increase of 7.5 Percent

2024 CMS ASC Rule Comments

CMS Proposed ASC Rule Issued Today: update of 2.8 percent, 5.5% for cataracts

AAO, ASCRS, & OOSS Respond to Aetna’s Plan to Lower the Grouper Assignments for Cataract Surgery Procedures

Ophthalmology Under the Microscope: RAC, TPE, and Exam Code Frequency

What’s New in 2026: Webinar Highlights

J-Codes & Drug Billing Risk: What Ophthalmic Practices Need to Understand

Ophthalmology Off the Grid: Ownership Positions in ASCs

Ophthalmology Off the Grid: The Roadmap to Building Your ASC

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CMS Issues Final 2023 ASC Payment Rule: Update of 3.8 Percent; Suspension of Reporting on Visual Function Measure

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CMS Rejects Facility Reimbursement for Cataract and Other Ophthalmic Procedures in OBS

OOSS ASC Payment Initiative

OOSS ASC Payment Initiative

CMS-1770-P, Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Quality Payment Program and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2023

OOSS Comments to CMS Regarding Office Based Surgery