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After consideration of the public comments we received and discussion and input from our Medical Officers, we are finalizing our proposal without modification for the APC assignments for CPT codes 0600T, 47384 and 55877

In addition, we set the payment rate for composite APC 8010 for CY 2018 at the same payment rate for APC 5863, which was the maximum partial hospitalization per diem payment rate for a hospital, and finalized a policy that the hospital would continue to be paid the payment rate for composite APC 8010

For CY 2026 and subsequent years, we also proposed to continue the policy we implemented in the CY 2010 OPPS/ASC final rule with comment period (74 FR 60537) regarding payment for new brachytherapy sources for which we have no claims data, for the same reasons we discussed in the CY 2008 OPPS/ASC final rule with comment period (72 FR 66786

This removes surface contaminants that could be introduced by the needle