Outpatient Surgery Quality and Access Act of 2023

This bill updates Medicare payment rules for outpatient surgery centers to improve quality transparency and patient affordability. It requires Medicare to publish side-by-side quality comparisons for surgery centers and hospitals on Medicare.gov, and limits patient copayments for these services to the inpatient hospital deductible amount. The bill also mandates that Medicare explain in writing why certain surgical procedures are excluded from coverage, citing specific federal criteria. These changes directly affect Medicare beneficiaries receiving outpatient surgeries and the surgery centers providing those services.