The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has reduced the payment for lithotripsy by approximately 20 percent due to an error in the November 2011 payment rate, according to an ASCA release.
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The U.S. outpatient surgery center industry includes about 3,500 companies that operate about 5,000 centers and have combined annual revenue of $18 billion, according to a report titled "Outpatient Surgical Centers" from Research and Markets.
Health plans are increasingly providing patients with specific dollar estimates for physician office visits, according to an American Medical News report.
Hospitals and medical groups are increasingly relying on what the industry calls "locum tenens" physicians, or providers who fill in on a temporary basis, according to a Forbes report.
John Hammergren is chairman, president and CEO of McKesson Medical-Surgical, a provider of technology and distribution solutions for the healthcare industry. The company is the largest pharmaceutical distributor in North America, responsible for distributing one-third of the medicines used every…
Surgery centers can improve profitability in two basic ways: cut costs or increase volume. With payors cutting off referrals to out-of-network surgery centers and hospitals employing physicians, the task of increasing physician volume is becoming more challenging. Ten surgery center…
Marisa Manley, president of Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, discusses four important ways to assess spatial efficiency in ASCs and use that data to lower costs.
Medical device recalls increased 161 percent in the first quarter of 2012 over the previous quarter, according to the first quarterly ExpertRECALL Index (pdf) of 2012.
Cardinal Health has acquired Dik Drug Co., according to a MedCity News report.
Editor's note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in Anesthesia Business Consultants eAlerts, a free electronic newsletter. Sign-up to receive this…