Health plans monitor certain trends in ASCs to ensure payment integrity, according to Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Optum Payment Integrity Facility Ideation Leader Robin Richards.
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Vermont could soon have a framework in place to establish and regulate independent ASCs, the VT Digger reports.
The New Jersey Superior Appellate Court once again ruled the state's payment scheduled took precedence over CMS' fee schedule, LegalNewsLine reports.
In a recent press release, Doctor.com, the first customer experience platform purpose-built for the healthcare industry, announced that Andy Kennedy will be joining Doctor.com as Senior Director of Sales for Hospitals and Health Systems, reporting to Noel Coleman, Chief Revenue Officer.
CMS has continued implementing site-neutral policies to incentivize the use of lower-cost settings, according to Health Industry Distributors Association Vice President of Government Affairs Linda Rouse O'Neill.
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Fort Myers, Fla.-based Serbin Medical Billing outlined three trends affecting surgery centers' financial stability.
Outpatient treatment accounted for nearly 57 percent of hospital net patient revenue in 2017, according to Definitive Healthcare.
Newport Beach, Calif.-based DISC Sports and Spine Center Founder and spine surgeon Robert Bray, MD, was named among Global 1's top 10 bundled payment leaders.
An extra $41 billion in healthcare costs could be saved annually if all appropriate procedures were performed in ASCs, according to Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Optum Payment Integrity Facility Ideation Leader Robin Richards.
Fort Myers, Fla.-based Serbin Medical Billing outlined four ways ASCs can ensure financial stability when developing a new fee schedule.