The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has moved incrementally to date on the Medicare inpatient-only (IPO) list for a number of procedures, but the agency recently proposed to eliminate the IPO list altogether by 2024. The Advanced Medical Technology Association (Advamed) cautioned that the elimination of the entire IPO list should at the least be accompanied by a monitoring of outcomes to ensure that quality of the services is not affected, but also said the translation of payment codes for outpatient performance of these procedures might lead to inadequate reimbursement rates.