The 2017 OPPS Final Rule with comment period is now available (effective January 1, 2017).
This final rule with comment period revises the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) and the Medicare ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system for CY 2017 to implement applicable statutory requirements and changes arising from our continuing experience with these systems. In this final rule with comment period, we describe the changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the payment rates for Medicare services paid under the OPPS and those paid under the ASC payment system. In addition, this final rule with comment period updates and refines the requirements for the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR) Program and the ASC Quality Reporting (ASCQR) Program.
Further, in this final rule with comment period, we are making changes to tolerance thresholds for clinical outcomes for solid organ transplant programs; to Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) definitions, outcome measures, and organ transport documentation; and to the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs. We also are removing the HCAHPS Pain Management dimension from the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program.
In addition, we are implementing section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 relating to payment for certain items and services furnished by certain off-campus provider-based departments of a provider. In this document, we also are issuing an interim final rule with comment period to establish the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule payment rates for the nonexcepted items and services billed by a nonexcepted off-campus provider-based department of a hospital in accordance with the provisions of section 603.
Read this Final Rule in the Federal Register.
- CMS-1656-FC (PDF)
- CMS-1656-FC (Text)
- 2017 Final Rule OPPS Cost Statistics Files
- 2017 Final Rule OPPS “Data Addendum B” and “2 Times Rule” File
- 2017 Final Rule OPPS Addenda Table of Contents
- 2017 Final Rule OPPS Addenda
- 2017 Final Rule OPPS Facility-Specific Impacts
- 2017 Final Rule OPPS Blood Revenue Code Cost to Charge Ratios
- 2017 Final Rule OPPS Revenue Code-to-Cost Center Crosswalk
- FY 2017 Wage Index Home Page
- Final Rule with Comment Changes to the Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System and CY 2017 Payment Rates
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