Coding experts agree that ASCs should conduct regular audits of their coding processes to ensure the ASC is not upcoding, a possible fraud issue, or downcoding, leading to a loss of owed reimbursement. Coding consultant Lolita M. Jones, RHIA, CCS,…
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Gastroenterologist Ian Renner, MD, has joined the active medical staff at Mark Twain St. Joseph's Hospital in San Andreas, Calif., according to a Pine Tree report.
Jon Vick, president of ASCs Inc., provides seven best practices for selling ASC shares.
Community Health Center has received a $453,000 grant to support a new pain management study that would equip providers to manage chronic, long-term pain, according to a Hartford Business report.
Newer equipment and improved ultrasound imaging make femoral nerve blocks a more viable choice for post-operative pain relief in total joint replacements, allowing patients to block pain just where it hurts, according to a WRAL report.
Linda Beaver, RN, MSN, MHA, administrator at Gateway Endoscopy Center in St. Louis, shares a best practice on how ASCs can achieve more effective and successful colonoscopy screenings with patients.
CMS' accreditation standards, which other accrediting bodies such as AAAHC adopt, change rather frequently and add new, sweeping measures that are hard to meet. Many ASCs, for example, found the new conditions of coverage, such as new infection control measures,…
A Grand Rapids, Mich., dermatologist, who was found guilty of healthcare fraud by performing medically unnecessary procedures on patients and re-using medical equipment, had six months removed from his 126-month prison sentence in federal court, according to a local FOX…
The Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology has revised recertification and grant extensions for recertification candidates who did not pass the computer-based test or the self-achievement recertification exam, according to a news release.