After receiving comments from stakeholders, the Kentucky Department of Workers' Claims has amended its hospital and ambulatory surgical center fee schedule.
The amendments make a number of changes to reimbursement rules and definitions, such as defining "hospital" to include out-of-state facilities and rehabilitation agencies, and revises the method for determining fees for surgical implants.
After 11 stakeholders filed comments or spoke at a public hearing about ambulatory surgical center fees, the department revised the schedule to allow ASCs to charge a facility fee for...
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