The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a proposed rule that would require Medicare providers and suppliers to notify Medicare beneficiaries of their right to contact their state's Medicare quality improvement organization if they have concerns about the…
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Here are reports about 19 new surgery centers which opened or were announced in January.
If federal antitrust guidelines were applied to health insurance markets, 99 percent of them would be deemed "highly concentrated," according to an AMA release.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has reported that some carriers are not recognizing the PT modifier for ASC claims, according to an Ambulatory Surgery Center Association release.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois and the Illinois Hospital Association are partnering on a new initiative to significantly reduce readmission rates at Illinois hospitals by 2014, according to a release by the hospital association.
Pointing to a federal judge's decision to strike down the healthcare reform law, Physician Hospitals of America and Texas Spine and Joint Hospital have filed a motion to invalidate the ban on physician-owned hospitals, according to a PHA release.
Here are 12 statistics on GI/endoscopy based on number of operating rooms, according to data from VMG Health’s Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.
New strategies should be developed to achieve glycemic control with a minimal risk of hypoglycemia, according to a report published in Anesthesiology.
Central Kansas Medical Center in Great Bend will lay off 130 employees when it becomes a surgery center on May 1, according to a KTKA report.
Tip: Shaun Sweeney, vice president of sales and marketing for Cygnus Medical, which specializes in products and services for the endoscopy suite, operating room and sterile processing department, says another pitfall GI/endoscopy-driven ASCs run into is brushing scopes with a…