ASC revenue cycle services provider Surgical Notes and patient relationship management software maker Simple Admit partnered to create a hybrid technological offering, Surgical Notes announced Nov. 6.
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CMS will pay for certain angioplasty and stenting procedures in ASCs beginning Jan. 1, under its 2020 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and ASC Payment System Final Rule.
Opioid use disorder treatment will be covered under CMS' 2020 physician fee schedule final rule.
CMS included a site-neutral payment policy and added total knee arthroplasty to the ASC-payable list in its 2020 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and ASC Payment System Final Rule, which was released on Nov. 1.
Hospitals will account for an estimated 33 percent, or $1.3 trillion, of U.S. healthcare expenditures in 2019, according to the Health Industry Distributors Association's 2019 Hospitals & Health Systems Market Report.
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Select Medical Holdings Corp. posted nearly $1.4 billion in third-quarter revenues in 2019.
Pierce Street Same Day Surgery was awarded $1.6 million in damages after a jury ruled that its CEO conspired with a competing physician group to develop a new surgery center, the Sioux City Journal reports.
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