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Medicare is removing more procedures from inpatient only status. Some people have been annoyed in the past that they had a procedure, stayed overnight in the hospital but were "outpatients" for billing purposes IIRC one issue was for a person who was working and had part A but employer health insurance for outpatient procedures but with a large deductible.

In this final rule, CMS will begin eliminating the Inpatient Only (IPO) list of 1,700 procedures for which Medicare will only pay when performed in the hospital inpatient setting over a three-year transitional period, beginning with some 300 primarily musculoskeletal-related services.

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-s...yment-system-and-ambulatory-surgical-center-0