Also, we finalized our proposal to make interim APC and status indicator assignments for CPT codes that are not available in time for the proposed rule and that describe wholly new services (such as new technologies or new surgical procedures), to solicit public comments in the final rule, and ( to finalize the specific APC and status indicator assignments for those codes in the following year's rule
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Of these, the highest statistical methodology is the arithmetic mean cost of $1,517
Based on this review, in the CY 2026 OPPS/ASC proposed rule we stated that we believed it would be appropriate to propose the use of hospitals' median payer-specific negotiated charges for MAOs, to be collected on the Medicare cost report as described previously, within a proposed new methodology for calculating the MS-DRG relative weights to reflect a more market-based approach, using our authority under sections 1886(d)(4)(A), 1886(d)(4)(B), and 1886(d)(4)(C) of the Act