Answering the first lawsuit on the health reform law, which challenges the mandate to buy health insurance, the U.S. Justice Department argued that the suit has no standing because the mandate does not take effect until 2014, according to a…
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Government funds for healthcare information technology and future mandates for the use of electronic health records have led many ASCs to begin exploring upgrading their HIT programs. Fremont (Neb.) Surgical Center, a 3-OR ASC performing 4,000 cases annually, has already…
An overnight recovery area opens a whole new world for ASCs looking to build volume with a wider array of procedures, says Joseph Banno, MD, a urologist and founder of the Peoria (Ill.) Day Surgery Center, a four-OR, multispecialty ASC.
Joseph Stapleton, MD, is an anesthesiologist, pain physician and a partner at East Portland Surgical Center in Happy Valley, OR.
Here are four financial and operational risk factors that can have an impact on an ASC's value and the relative importance ASC operators placed on them, according to VMG Health's ValueDriver ASC Risk Assessment Survey.
Kimberly Tude Thout is the administrator of Yakima (Wash.) Ambulatory Surgical Center, a physician-owned, multi-specialty ASC.
To guide its work in healthcare information technology, the National Quality Forum announced it has formed a new Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC), according to a news release.
As healthcare financing is about to change dramatically under healthcare reform, healthcare costs continue to rise faster than wages and the Consumer Price Index, according to the annual Milliman Medical Index.
A letter to congressional leaders from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius lists the first provisions of the health reform law that will be carried out soon, according to a report by AHA News Now.
Issaquah, Wash.-based Spacelabs Healthcare has announced the release of its Ultraview DM3 dual-mode vital signs monitor, which recently received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to a Spacelabs news release.