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Outpatient Code Editor with Ambulatory Payment Classification (OCEOutpatient Code Editor with Ambulatory Payment Classification (OCE It combines editing logic with the new Ambulatory Payment Classifications (APC) assignment program designed to meet mandated Medicare outpatient prospective Medicare originally based payments. for outpatient care on hospitals’ costs. The APC is the service classification system for the outpatient prospective Medicare Revisions Ever have trouble getting through on the telephone to your Medicare carrier? In the future, the CMS will create APC groups for insertion of pacemakers, California State Auditor - Report 2003-108.2 Summary The new law also requires that for pharmacy services and drugs that Medicare's APC fee schedule does not otherwise cover, payments be limited to 100 percent | |||||