United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2006-11-30 monographic deposited born digital 32 p. GA 1.13:GAO-07-86 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-86 P0b002ee180393370 f:d0786 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-86 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-86 GAO-07-86 Cost analysis Health care costs Health care facilities Health surveys Hospital care services Medical procedures Medicare Outpatient care Payments Cost estimates Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System Other Written Product A63766 Medicare pays for surgical procedures performed at ambulatory surgical centers (ASC) and hospital outpatient departments through different payment systems. Although they perform a similar set of procedures, no comparison of ASC and hospital outpatient per-procedure costs has been conducted. The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 directed GAO to compare the relative costs of procedures furnished in ASCs to the relative costs of those procedures furnished in hospital outpatient departments, in particular, how accurately the payment groups used in the hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) reflect the relative costs of procedures performed in ASCs. To do this, GAO collected data from ASCs through a survey. GAO also obtained hospital outpatient data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-86/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-86.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-86/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-86.pdf GAO-07-86 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-86 Other Written Product GAO-07-86; Medicare: Payment for Ambulatory Surgical Centers Should Be Based on the Hospital Outpatient Payment System; Cost analysis Health care costs Health care facilities Health surveys Hospital care services Medical procedures Medicare Outpatient care Payments Cost estimates Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System Volume 94 Page 2599 94 Stat. 2599 Volume 100 Page 1874 100 Stat. 1874 Volume 108 Page 4398 108 Stat. 4398 Volume 111 Page 251 111 Stat. 251 Volume 113 Page 1501A-3 113 Stat. 1501A-3 Volume 117 Page 2066 117 Stat. 2066 Public Law 96-499 Public Law 99-509 Public Law 103-432 Public Law 105-33 Public Law 106-113 Public Law 108-173