ASCA Chief Executive Officer Bill Prentice talks with ASCA Regulatory Counsel and Director of Government Affairs Kara Newbury about key provisions of Medicare’s 2023 final ASC payment rule released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on November 1, 2022. The two discuss new complexity adjustments CMS adopted for ASCs, the inflation adjustment made to ASC reimbursement rates, changes to the ASC Covered Procedures List (ASC-CPL) and the status of ASC quality reporting measure ASC-11. They also talk about ASCA’s plans for responding to the new rule and tools ASCA will be offering its members to help them adapt to changes the 2023 rule contains.