The Vermont House Health Care Committee advanced a bill that could establish a state licensing structure for ASCs; however, it removed two controversial aspects, VTDigger reports.
Florida's certificate of need repeal attempt is on its way to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis after both legislative bodies passed it April 29, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
Federal prosecutors plan to sue a Tennessee state senator who previously owned a pain center accused of billing fraud, according to News Channel 3, a CBS affiliate.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upheld a ruling in favor of a medical malpractice insurer.
Administrator of Southfield, Mich.-based Great Lakes Surgical Center Allison Stock, RN, JD, CASC, discusses the center's strategy for patient collections and where she sees payer trends headed in the future.
These five ASCs, ASC management companies and health systems with ASCs entered into or renewed payer contracts this year:
Medicare payments for the top 10 current procedural terminology codes performed by ASCs are expected to remain relatively stable in 2019 compared to 2018, according to VMG Health.
Thirty-six states have certificate of need laws, but an array of states are considering repealing or scaling down the restrictions.
Two Florida hospital leaders penned a column for the News-Press petitioning voters to urge their state senators to deny a proposal related to certificate of need reform.
Compared to 2017, fewer physicians reported being worse off financially in 2018, according to Medical Economics' "90th Annual Physician Report."