Yttrium-90 reimbursement update
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
CMS adjusts payment rate for APC 2616 (yttrium-90) to $6,485 under the 2003 hospital OPPS to correct a mistake in the final rule designating a $460 payment rate for the liver cancer treatment. The one-time treatment costs $10,000, according to the Coalition for the Advancement of Brachytherapy, which informed CMS of the mistake after the final rule's publication (1"The Gray Sheet" Nov. 11, 2002, p. 26)...