Final CY 2026 Policy on Packaged Items and Services For CY 2026, we examined the items and services currently provided under the OPPS, reviewing categories of integral, ancillary, supportive, dependent, or adjunctive items and services for which we believe payment would be appropriately packaged into payment for the primary service that they support
Some common buffers include sodium citrate and phosphate buffer
Vitamin B12 is an essential vitamin that plays an important role in cell reproduction, blood formation, metabolism of fat and carbohydrates, and protein synthesis
Some achieve their goals at lower doses and find that higher doses produce diminishing returns with more side effects
We have maintained over the years that an analysis of our claims data for these three codes have shown geometric mean costs consistent with the geometric mean cost for the APC to which they were assigned to since 2015