On July 30, 2008, CMS issued its final rule regarding the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS). CMS elected to allow healthcare service providers until October 1, 2009 to restructure or unwind certain current arrangements that were impacted by the…
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The oversight and scrutiny of physician hospital and physician provider transactions and relationships has increased tremendously over the last few years. Scott Becker, JD, CPA, partner at McGuireWoods, discusses two legal trends affecting the relationship between surgery centers and physicians…
Here are 10 sets of compensation statistics about physicians and staff in ASCs.
John R. McLean, MD, a cardiologist from Salisbury, Md., has been indicted for allegedly putting unnecessary coronary stents in hundreds of patients and billing private and public payors for the procedures, according to a Baltimore Sun report.
Here is a sample infection control environmental review form used by Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center in Baxter, Minn., and provided by Sandy Berreth, administrator of the ASC and a AAAHC surveyor.
The United States Fifth Court of Appeals has upheld a district court ruling that a health plan violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by refusing payment to a hospital for health services it felt were not "reasonable and customary,"…
Debra Saxton Stinchcomb, RN, a consultant at Progressive Surgical Solutions, offers four observations on developing a budget for an ASC.
Even though CMS continues to delay plans to require ASC quality reporting, ASC organizations on the national and state level have been moving ahead with their own voluntary reporting programs and the industry is encouraging CMS to implement national reporting.
While everyone is worried about stolen laptops or unauthorized access to computer files, who ever thought the hard drive in copying and fax machines could be a potential HIPAA violation?
Loan guarantees are powerful tools that can be used to finance businesses that involve a partnership with physicians, provided that there is fair market value (FMV) compensation paid for the value of services received. As recent economic turmoil has led…