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Can Selling an ASC's Real Estate Enhance the Surgery Business? |
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Written by Stephanie Wasek
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Wednesday, 09 January 2008 |
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The business concept of selling your ASC building, then renting it from a real estate investment company such as The Sanders Trust, is an interesting one. An excerpt of an interview with Bruce Bright, the director of business development for The Sanders Trust, follows below. To see the full text in the Jan./Feb. issue, be sure to subscribe to Becker's ASC Review.
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10 Benchmarking Statistics for Ambulatory Surgical Centers |
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Written by Scott Becker
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Wednesday, 09 January 2008 |
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The following highlights another 10 terrific statistics on ASCs from the 2007 Multispecialty ASC Intellimarker. This publication is authored by VMG Health, an outstanding valuation firm with a focus on ASCs. You can
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Interview With John Poisson: A Temperate View of the GI Medicare Payment Cuts |
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Written by Scott Becker
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Wednesday, 09 January 2008 |
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By all accounts, GI as a specialty — and especially GI ASCs — will be hit the hardest by CMS's restructuring of the ASC payment system. But the situation is not as dire as it may seem at first glance, notes John Poisson, the executive vice president at Physicians Endoscopy, which works exclusively with the same GI facilities seemingly doomed by the ACG.
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The Medicare Prescription Drug Bill Amendments to the Stark Act: Strategic Options |
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Written by Scott Becker
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Wednesday, 09 January 2008 |
This article describes certain strategic options that specialty hospitals can evaluate in light of the Drug Bill.
The Drug Bill includes amendments to the Ethics in Patient Referrals Act, 42 U.S.C. §1395nn, as amended (the “Stark Act”), and the regulations promulgated thereunder, 42 C.F.R. §411.350 et seq. (the “Stark Rules”). The effect of these amendments would be to impact negatively physician investment in specialty hospitals, and further to eliminate the existing exception to the Stark Act for physician-owned hospitals in rural areas. The amendments are applicable under the Bill’s moratorium until May of 2005.
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MedPac Study |
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Written by Elissa Koch and Scott Becker
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Wednesday, 09 January 2008 |
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The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPac) was mandated by last year's Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) to assess the impact of specialty, physician-owned hospitals on general hospitals and how the current diagnosis related group ("DRG") payment system should be updated to better reflect the costs of care. The transcript from the October 28-29, 2004 meeting became available on November 7, 2004. Julian Pettengill, a research director for MedPac, presented the findings.
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