MedPAC: Don't hike ASC pay without more data.

The article reports on the plan of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to vote in January 2020 against a pay increase for ambulatory surgical centers for not providing cost data. Topics mentioned include an increase in ambulatory surgical centers' growth in Medicare revenue from 2017 to 2018, the need for U.S. Congress to eliminate the update for the calendar year 2021, and the reason why MedPAC could not calculate profit margins for ambulatory surgical centers.