2024 Ipo List Cms. The centers for medicare & medicaid services (cms) finalized its hospital outpatient prospective payment system (opps) and ambulatory surgical center (asc). The centers for medicare and medicaid services (cms) continues to update annually the inpatient only list (ipo).
In the 2021 outpatient prospective payment system (opps) final rule, cms announced it will eliminate the ipo list altogether by 2024, allowing physicians to determine the appropriate setting for a surgical procedure and giving patients. For 2024, cms proposes to add nine new services with newly created current procedural terminology (cpt) codes to the ipo list.