Most ASCs take write-offs with contracted payors at the time of billing (TOB) rather than time of payment (TOP), and the data shows ASCs are collecting more per case. According to a study conducted by GENASCIS, a provider of billing,…
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El Camino Hospital, which has hospital campuses in Mountain View and Los Gatos, Calif., is in discussion with the management team of an ambulatory surgery center in Mountain View about reducing the hospital's majority ownership position to a minority ownership,…
Healthcare-associated infections and surgical site infections deserve more attention from the anesthesia community, and hand-washing studies should be repeated at other institutions, according to the authors of an editorial published in Anesthesia & Analgesia.
CMS has issued a reminder for Medicare fee-for-service physicians, providers and suppliers that all claims for services furnished on or after Jan. 1, 2010 must be filed with the individual's Medicare contractor no later than one calendar year after date…
Peter L Bailey, MD, a physician in private practice in New York and former professor with the University of Rochester (N.Y.), provides practical guidance for improving IV start times.
Here are 10 statistics on ASCs with more than four ORs, according to data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.
Neal Maerki, administrator of Bend (Ore.) Surgery Center, says his surgery center employs a clever tactic to incent physicians to come to partnership meetings. The center holds a partnership meeting every six months, and Mr. Maerki started offering physicians $200…
Researchers evaluate whether sex and ethnicity preferences for endoscopists exist among Hispanic patients, according to a study published in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
2011 should be an interesting year for surgery center legal issues. The key issues that we see include increased enforcement under the anti-kickback and related statutes, increased impatience from physicians as to other physicians' activities at surgery centers, increased efforts…
Performance improvement processes are an integral part of an ambulatory surgery center's long-term financial, operational and clinical success. ASCs must maintain a sound and robust performance improvement process in order to pinpoint areas of weakness and effectively launch the appropriate…