The healthcare reform law is supposed to reduce emergency department overcrowding in 2014, when 32 million more people will be covered by health insurance, but the some experts think ED usage could actually grow, according to a report by the…
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Buddy Bacon is CEO of Meridian Surgical Partners.Q: We have a successful, independent ASC. Is there any value in our considering a majority or minority partnership with a management company?
CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.Note: This article previously appeared on the American Academy of Professional Coder's website. Eleven new CPT Category III codes were implemented July…
The following article appeared in the May 2010 issue of Connection, the bi-monthly e-newsletter from the AAAHC.Q. My ASC is Medicare certified and we use a C-Arm; does CMS really require that a radiologist supervise radiological services?
Massachusetts's healthcare reform law, now in a "train wreck," shows the fatal flaws of the federal healthcare reform law because the two are basically the same legislation, according to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal.
President Obama said he intends to use the current Congressional recess to appoint Donald Berwick, MD, as administrator of CMS without confirmation by the Senate, according to a report by Forbes.
A whistleblower lawsuit against WellCare Health Plans filed four years ago in Florida by a financial analyst at the insurance company has been unsealed by a U.S. District Court judge after he learned the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tampa was…
Joe Zasa, managing partner of ASD Management, an operator of 26 ASCs throughout the United States, discusses things to know about HOPD management service organization (MSO) arrangements, an alternative for physicians considering building an ASC.
Dana Folstrom, RN, CASC administrator for Mirage Endoscopy Center, a Health Inventures ASC, in Rancho Mirage, Calif., shares the following four ways his ASC has improved its operational efficiency.
The following question pertains to the recent news: "CMS Waives Separate Waiting Room Requirement for ASCs Meeting New Criteria." The answer was provided by Dawn Q. McLane, RN, MSA, CASC, CNOR, chief development officer of Nikitis Resource Group, an ASC…