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The 2020 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule has been published by CMS and in their fact sheet one hot topic is mentioned related to new technology and procedures for Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy. Each year in the proposed rule, CMS addresses the applications for new technology add-on payments under the IPPS…

CMS published their update of the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) with a summary of changes cover 17 topics in Transmittal 4204, Change Request 11099 dated January 17, 2019. The changes impact policies for the integrated outpatient code editor (I/OCE), updates with various Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes, HCPCS modifiers, Ambulatory Payment…