CMS Wants to Hear From You on Inpatient-Only List Changes – RamaOnHealthcare

CMS Wants to Hear from You on Inpatient-Only List Changes – RamaOnHealthcare

Let me start this article by asking for your help. Flash back to 2013. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) at that time proposed to

CMS Wants to Hear from You on Inpatient-Only List Changes – MedLearn Publishing

Let me start this article by asking for your help. Flash back to 2013. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) at that time proposed to take total knee arthroplasty off the Inpatient-Only List. They felt that it could safely be performed as an outpatient procedure. But the reality was that at that time, very few orthopedic surgeons were performing joint replacements and sending patients home the next day, much less the same day. And s…