Regulatory Issues

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Regulatory Issues

Advocating for regulations that improve surgical practice

The Issues That Impact Your Practice

Our mission at the ACSis to help surgeons provide care that improves patient outcomes. For that reason, our regulatory strategies are focused on physician and facility payment, quality, value-based care, digital health, coding, billing, and reimbursement practice.

Physician and Facility Payment Rules

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes rules to establish or modify the way the agency administers its programs, including Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rule, Inpatient Prospective Payment rule, Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule, Medicare Advantage and Part D rules, and the No Surprises Act.

Quality & Value-Based Care

Our decades of experience designing and implementing the ACSACSinforms our advocacy efforts in the transformation of patient-centered value-based care. All physician and facility payment rules incorporate elements of value-based care, including quality and cost/price.

Practice Management

Tools to help surgeons run an efficient and successful practice.

Private Payors

The ACSengages with private payors on issues including, lack of coverage, prior authorization, surprise billing, network adequacy, narrow networks, tiering, and other policies.

Digital Health

The use of digital health data and advanced digital tools and algorithms to support healthcare delivery are more common than ever before.

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Regulatory Issues

The Issues That Impact Your Practice

Physician and Facility Payment Rules

Quality & Value-Based Care

Practice Management

Private Payors

Digital Health