Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Propose New Reimbursement for EXPAREL in All Outpatient Surgical Environments Beginning January 1, 2025

-- Proposed Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System Rule extends separate payment from ambulatory surgical centers to include the hospital outpatient environment – "Following several years of advocacy for reimbursement policy reform to allow increased patient and provider access to non-opioids, we are pleased to see EXPAREL included as one of only six qualifying non-opioid drugs to treat postsurgical pain in the proposed rule," said Frank D. Lee, Chief Executive ...