As part of our longstanding collaboration and ongoing efforts on critical policy and payment issues impacting GI clinicians, AGA, ACG and ASGE submitted comments on proposed 2022 Medicare payments to physicians, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and hospital outpatient departments to the CMS. We advocated for:
- Increased and more accurate valuation for peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) and capsule endoscopy services.
- Continued flexibility and payment parity for telehealth and telephone services.
- Elimination of the secondary scalar for ASCs, which contributes to the widening differential in payments to ASCs compared to the hospital outpatient department.
You can access our letter here.
