Outpatient Surgery Access Act of 2026
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Jul 14, 2026
What it does
The Outpatient Surgery Access Act of 2026 would amend Medicare payment rules for ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) by aligning their annual payment updates with those used for hospital outpatient department (OPD) services, ensuring ASCs receive the same fee schedule increase factor as hospital outpatient departments starting in 2027. It would prohibit ASC-specific budget neutrality adjustments that aim to maintain prior spending levels and instead require that budget neutrality calculations for outpatient surgical procedures include expenditures under the revised ASC payment system. These changes affect Medicare payments to ASCs and aim to modernize and equitably update reimbursement for…
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