A chain of ambulatory surgery centers contended at a public hearing earlier this month that the North Carolina Industrial Commission’s fee schedule, recently ruled invalid by a judge, has created a “significant reimbursement disparity” between surgery centers and hospital outpatient departments.
Wake County Superior Court Judge Paul C. Ridgeway ruled in August that the commission failed to craft or obtain a fiscal noting relating to a schedule it enacted in April 2015.
Surgical Care Affiliates, based in Birmingham, Alabama, and owner of seven centers in North Carolina, sued...
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