Oxford Health Plans and Aetna have sent letters to New Jersey members and providers announcing restrictions on reimbursement for out-of-network services that may force ASCs to go entirely in-network, according to Jeffrey Shanton, director of business management for Journal Square…
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Caryl Serbin, president and founder of Serbin Surgery Center Billing, recommends ASCs focus on the following areas when auditing different components of their billing process.
The president of the American Academy of Nursing, in a commentary article published by The Baltimore Sun, pushes for more states, including Maryland, to opt out of the federal rule requiring CRNAs to receive anesthesiologist supervision when providing care to…
Raleigh General Hospital in Beckley, W.V., has opened its new $8 million ASC, according a report from The Register-Herald.
The New York Times has published a few letters to the editor discussing the publication's editorial column "Who Should Provide Anesthesia Care?" which centers around the ongoing debate about whether a CRNA can deliver anesthetics without the supervision of anesthesiologist.
Here are 14 statistics on net revenue and gross charges for ASC orthopedic cases, based on a 2009 analysis of 174 licensed freestanding ASCs, according to the VMG Health Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.
If you think your clinic or surgery center is feeling productivity pressure now, what's coming won't bring much good news. There will be millions more patients, and relatively few more doctors. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human…
According to Joyce Deno Thomas, senior vice president of operations for Regent Surgical Health, ASCs are going to be increasingly held to the same standards as hospitals for quality control. She offers four ways to establish an effective quality control…
Jeannie Pezone, administrator at West Park Surgery Center in Pinellas Park, Fla., explains the process that helps the surgery center ensure patients are properly informed of their rights and responsibilities prior to the day of their procedure, according to standards…
"MedWatcher," a new iPhone application developed by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston (Mass.) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, allows users to track the latest drug safety updates and alerts from the Food and Drug Administration, according…