2024 Medicare Inpatient Only Procedure List. The change will allow medicare to pay for those procedures in either hospital outpatient settings or inpatient. Cms established the inpatient only (ipo) list in 2000 to designate procedures that, because of their invasive nature, the expected recovery time.

This article highlights changes to the medicare inpatient only (ipo) procedure list and the asc. In the 2021 outpatient prospective payment system (opps) final rule, cms announced it will eliminate the ipo list altogether by 2024, allowing physicians to determine the appropriate setting for a surgical procedure.