Medicare Ambulatory Surgery Fee Schedule 2024. On july 13, 2023, the centers for medicare & medicaid services (cms) proposed medicare payment rates for hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgical center (asc). Late in 2023, the centers for medicare & medicaid services (cms) finalized changes for the 2024 inpatient prospective payment system (ipps), medicare physician fee.

Cms is finalizing a cy 2024 conversion factor of $32.74, which is 3.4% less than the cy 2023 conversion factor of $33.89. The fee schedule applies to all ambulance services, including volunteer, municipal, private, independent, and institutional providers, hospitals, critical access hospitals (except when.