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CMS delays adding new ASC procedures

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WASHINGTON — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will not add to the list of procedures approved for the ambulatory surgery center setting before the end of this year, according to the Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society. Representatives of OOSS were informed of the delay on Monday in a meeting with CMS officials.

CMS was expected to publish the update to list of procedures approved for ASCs in November and to make the update effective for services furnished as of Jan. 1. According to a statement from OOSS, CMS officials hope the delay will be brief and that a notice will be published in early 2003.

The update, the first to be issued since 1995, is expected to include about a dozen ophthalmology and ophthalmic dermatology procedures, including CPT codes 15820, 15821, 15822 and 15823 (revision of lower and upper eyelid), 65855 (trabeculoplasty by laser surgery) and 67145 (laser prophylaxis of retinal detachment).