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CMS released its final 2027 outpatient prospective payment system and ASC rule Nov. 4, giving ASCs a 2.3% payment update…
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CMS released its final 2027 Medicare physician fee schedule and hospital outpatient and ASC payment rules Nov. 4, closing out a comment season that drew tens of thousands of responses from physicians, practices and industry groups. For many physicians, the…
Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners reported third-quarter revenue of $815.3 million, down 0.8% year over year, according to a Nov. 9 news release. The results include the company’s Idaho Falls facilities only through Sept. 13, when the divestiture closed. Here are…
Patient access is often the first place health systems apply artificial intelligence. Scheduling, confirmations, cancellations and reschedules are high-volume, rules-heavy and chronically understaffed which is why voice agents and other automation tend to land here first. But the gap between…
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Growth can be a natural reward for a successful physician-owned practice. It could also be the force most likely to erode what made the practice attractive in the first place: physicians’ control over how they work. Charlotte, N.C.-based OrthoCarolina is…
Hospitals are absorbing a sharp rise in unpaid bills as ACA coverage erodes, and ASC leaders say the same affordability gap is hitting elective cases. Bad debt and charity care per calendar day rose 49% in the first eight months…
The American Society of Anesthesiologists is urging CMS to keep Medicare’s physician supervision requirement for certified registered nurse anesthetists, according to a Nov. 9 news release shared with Becker’s. CMS is seeking input on the future of the requirement, including…
Recoupments are one of the least-visible threats to an ASCs margin. They surface as offsets and provider-level balance adjustments months, sometimes years, after the money was already counted as collected. For surgery centers running lean billing teams, that timing is…
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The American Medical Association’s House of Delegates voted to strengthen medicine’s opposition to insurer downcoding practices that wrongly reduce payment for physician services and can threaten patient access to care. Physician and medical student delegates approved the policy at the…
Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group made an unsolicited offer of $28 per share to acquire Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners, Bloomberg reported Nov. 9, citing a person familiar with the situation. Surgery Partners rejected the offer over concerns about the deal’s complexity…
CMS’ final 2027 outpatient payment rule has split the hospital industry, and the inpatient-only phaseout at the center of the fight is sending hundreds more surgical cases to ASCs. CMS finalized the rule Nov. 4. It cuts payment for 340B-acquired…
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