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December 7, 2015

GI News Round Up – 11/20/15 to 12/4/15

GI News

Independent practice, bundled payments & Medicare reimbursement — Key thoughts on GI centers in 2016 from Physicians Endoscopy CEO Barry Tanner
Becker’s ASC Review
Laura Dyrda

FDA’s scope reprocessing guidelines most cost-effective for infection prevention

Healio
Christover Almario, Brennan Spiegel

Defining moments: The top 2015 highlights in GI
Becker’s ASC Review
Carrie Pallardy



Colonoscopy

Development of a CMS Quality Measure for Outpatient Colonoscopy
NEJM Journal Watch
Douglas Rex

Mayo Clinic lobbies U.S. panel to accept noninvasive colon cancer test

The Star Tribune
Jim Spencer

24.4M people will need to be screened to meet the National CRC Roundtable’s ‘80% by 2018’ goal: 5 key points
Becker’s ASC Review
Carrie Pallardy



Ambulatory Surgery Centers

CMS Approves Outpatient Ambulatory Patient Experience Survey
RevCycle Intelligence
Jacqueline DiChiara



Medicare Reimbursement

OIG Proposes Alternative Part B Payment Methodologies for 340B Drugs: Is This the End of 340B As We Know It?
National Law Review
Ellyn Sternfield

HHS proposes Medicare drug reimbursement cuts under discount program

Reuters
Brendan Pierson



Stark Law

CMS’s Top 7 Changes to Stark Law
National Law Review
Bryna Hummel, Robert Nauman, John Wyand

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