Comment Letter

AANS and CNS Submit Comments on the 2024 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System/Ambulatory Surgery Center Proposed Rule

  • Reimbursement and Practice Management

Ms. Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
ATTN: CMS-1786-P
P.O. Box 8013 Baltimore, MD 21244-1850

Submitted electronically via www.regulations.gov

Subject: CMS-1786-P Medicare Program: Calendar Year (CY) 2024 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs; Payment for Intensive Outpatient Services in Rural Health Clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and Opioid Treatment Programs; Hospital Price Transparency; Changes to Community Mental Health Centers Conditions of Participation, Proposed Changes to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System Medicare Code Editor; Rural Emergency Hospital Conditions of Participation Technical Correction.

Dear Administrator Brooks-LaSure:

On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), representing more than 4,000 neurosurgeons in the United States, we appreciate the opportunity to comment on the payment and quality provisions of the above-referenced notice of proposed rulemaking.

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