AABB Publishes Summary of 2025 Hospital OPPS Proposed Rule

August 02, 2024

AABB recently released a summary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)’s proposed rule updating Medicare payment rates and policies under the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System for calendar year (CY) 2025.

Each section of the summary document describes key provisions within the final rule related to the transfusion medicine and biotherapies community. These include payment policies and rates for transfusion medicine, cellular therapies and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy. The summary document also features tables of payment rates for blood and blood products, as well as transfusion, apheresis and stem cell procedures.

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