Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS)

The OPPS was implemented in 2000 and significantly changes how hospitals are reimbursed for outpatient services under Medicare.

Access the below OPPS related information from this page.

Services Included Under OPPS

  • Designated hospital outpatient services
  • Certain Medicare Part B services furnished to hospital inpatients who do not have Part A coverage
  • Partial hospitalization services furnished by hospitals or Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC)
  • Hepatitis B vaccines and their administration, splints, casts, and antigens furnished by a Home Health Agency (HHA) to patients who are not under an HHA plan of treatment or to hospice patients for treatment of non-terminal illness
  • An initial preventive physical examination (IPPE) performed within the first 12 months of Medicare Part B coverage

Services Excluded from Payment under OPPS

  • Clinical diagnostic laboratory services
  • Outpatient therapy services
  • Screening and diagnostic mammography

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Last Updated Apr 12 , 2021

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