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As this is below the threshold of 100 claims for a service within a year, we applied our universal low volume APC policy and used the highest of the geometric mean cost, arithmetic mean cost, or median cost based on up to 4 years of claims data to assign the service to the appropriate New Technology APC
However, they will not disappear from the market when AAS are still used
Response: Although we acknowledge that ED efficiency could be affected by multiple factors, some of which are outside the control of hospitals and health systems, measurement is essential for tracking and addressing these complex systemic issues and their downstream effects
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Therefore, we stated in the CY 2026 OPPS/ASC proposed rule that we believed the one-time burden estimate to be 37,080 hours for all hospitals (5 hours 7,416 hospitals) at a cost of $3,545,441.28 (7,416 hospitals [($87.52 4 hours) + ($128.00 1 hours)])