Last November Congress and the President passed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA). Section 603 of that act imposed sweeping changes that virtually shut down the development and implementation of new off-campus provider-based hospital outpatient departments overnight. To implement those changes, CMS will release significant changes to Medicare’s provider-based regulations as part of the proposed 2017 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) – the first such changes since 2003.

This webinar will review the newly proposed regulatory changes to Medicare’s provider-based rules, and also address the practical implications flowing from them and how to operationalize them, should they be finalized, as well as aspects of the proposed rules that you should consider commenting on before they are finalized by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). Lastly, this webinar will also provide an update of current legislative proposals targeted at revising Section 603 of the Act.