A bipartisan group of 21 senators, led by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mike Crapo (R-ID), have submitted a letter to CMS asking the agency to fix the ASC payment update.
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Susan Charkin, MPH, president of Healthcents, an ASC and physician specialty hospital contracting and consulting group, shares four clauses ASCs should watch for when contracting with third-party payors.
1. Entering uncertain times. "Healthcare in general faces a great deal of uncertainty," says Michael Redler, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at the Surgery Center of Fairfield County in Bridgeport, Conn. "We are entering uncharted waters." Predictions that the recession is…
Here are five financial statistics about podiatry in ASCs, according to VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.
As CEO of Ambulatory Surgery Centers of America, Luke Lambert helps to lead his company in developing and managing surgery centers. It makes sense, then, that he has an acute sense of why some surgery centers underperform financially. In a…
Supplies are one of the two biggest costs to ASCs. ASC administrators share the following three ways they cut their supply costs.
Medicare trustees said Medicare's hospital insurance trust fund would last until 2029, 12 years longer than trustees projected last year, due to cost-saving measures in the healthcare reform law, according to a report by the New York Times.
Q: In your experience, what are some of the essential pieces of equipment and their average costs for starting a pain management service line in an ASC? Amy Mowles, President and CEO, Mowles Medical Practice Management: Here is what centers…
Staff is typically one of the two biggest costs to an ASC. Two ASC administrators offer three suggestions on how to cut costs by employing the right staff, retaining quality team members and rethinking the structure of your workday.
Dawn Q. McLane RN, MSA, CASC, CNOR, chief development officer of Nikitis Resource Group, describes a critical ASC mistake and offers guidance to correct the problem.