|Articles|January 1, 2003

Warning issued: Medicare could drop inflation-adjusted rates

Washington, DC-The Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society (OOSS) is warning its members that inflation updates to Medicare payments for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) might be cut in 2003.

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