Chris Squire, board member of Minnesota Ambulatory Surgery Center Association and its government relations committee chairman, discusses five issues affecting Minnesota ASCs.
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Note: The following article first appeared on the AAPC Physicians Services website. When I talk to people who aren't compliance officers and mention the word compliance, the reaction ranges from a "deer in the headlights" look to outright anger.…
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Editor's note: The following article by Kevin McDonald, VP of account management for SourceMedical, appeared in the Fall 2010 edition of SourceMedical's "Insider Source" magazine. In today's mature software environment, most ASCs know exactly what they are looking for in…
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Lisa Austin, RN, CASC, vice president of ASC operations for Pinnacle III, says many ASCs do not construct cost-effective compensation models for their staff. She describes some best practices to avoid such a predicament. Lisa Austin: One of the biggest…