Cms 2024 Inpatient Only List. Cms established the inpatient only procedures (ipo) list in 2000 to designate procedures that, because of their invasive nature, the expected. This year, cms has removed a total of 298 mostly musculoskeletal procedures from that list, and now will pay for them in hopd settings when clinically.
In the 2021 outpatient prospective payment system (opps) final rule, cms announced it will eliminate the ipo list altogether by 2024, allowing physicians to determine the appropriate setting for a surgical procedure. After that come the logistics of how and where your surgery will be performed, and how much insurance will pay toward the.