CMS's CY 2009 final rule for the outpatient prospective payment system
(OPPS) includes a "restatement and clarification of [CMS's] longstanding
OPPS policy" regarding physician supervision of hospital outpatient
department (HOPD) services. Ober|Kaler's Tom Coons and Mark Stanley says that the "clarification" raises more questions than it answers.
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