In December 2008 we told you that “CMS Plans to Stop Payment for Wrong-Site Surgery”. As expected, those proposals have now become final and CMS has posted on its website its final decision memos to withhold payment for wrong surgery performed on a patient, surgery on the wrong body part, and surgery on the wrong patient.
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/mcd/viewdecisionmemo.asp?id=223
Surgery on the Wrong Body Part (CAG-00402N)
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/mcd/viewdecisionmemo.asp?id=222
Surgery on the Wrong Patient (CAG-00403N)
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/mcd/viewdecisionmemo.asp?id=221
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