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In a comment letter to CMS on its proposed outpatient prospective payment system rule to start Jan. 1, 2011, the AHA expressed "serious concerns" about "the continuing failure of CMS to require ASC quality and cost reporting."
Kevin McDonough, senior manager at the Dallas office of VMG Health, discusses why an ASC looking for a partner shouldn't base its decision solely on who is offering the most upfront money.
The certificate of need received by Novant Health to build an ASC in Holly Springs, N.C., is facing challenges from the three parties the organization beat out to receive the CON, according to a Triangle Business Journal report.
Caryl Serbin, president and founder of Serbin Surgery Center Billing, offers eight ways ASCs can improve patient collections.
Debra Saxton Stinchcomb, RN, a consultant at Progressive Surgical Solutions, offers seven points on recruiting more physicians to an ambulatory surgery center.
Here are stories on the openings of or plans for 25 new surgery centers announced in 2010.
Following authorization from CMS on Aug. 6 to begin medical necessity reviews of 18 types of medical conditions, three Medicare recovery audit contractors have announced the start of such review, according to AHA News Now.
Michael Buckstein, MD, a general oncology surgeon at Northeast Missouri Ambulatory Surgery Center in Hannibal, Mo., may be respected and recognized for his work with cancer treatment, but he remains humble about his accomplishments — so much so that congratulations…
Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Surgical Center recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. Jeff Hayes, who has been with the ASC for 19 years, with 13 in his current role of administrator, discusses the surgery center's history of success.