A recent report by the Government Accountability Office found that CMS has been inconsistent in reviewing states' Medicaid rates to ensure they are compliant and actuarially sound.
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Cathleen Rohling, chief operating officer for GastroIntestinal Associates Endoscopy Center in Wausau, Wis., discusses how her ASC has improved its approach to managing patient flow and fine-tuned its staffing model to improve the ASC's efficiency while saving money.
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A bipartisan group of 21 senators, led by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mike Crapo (R-ID), have submitted a letter to CMS asking the agency to fix the ASC payment update.
Susan Charkin, MPH, president of Healthcents, an ASC and physician specialty hospital contracting and consulting group, shares four clauses ASCs should watch for when contracting with third-party payors.
1. Entering uncertain times. "Healthcare in general faces a great deal of uncertainty," says Michael Redler, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at the Surgery Center of Fairfield County in Bridgeport, Conn. "We are entering uncharted waters." Predictions that the recession is…
Here are five financial statistics about podiatry in ASCs, according to VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.
As CEO of Ambulatory Surgery Centers of America, Luke Lambert helps to lead his company in developing and managing surgery centers. It makes sense, then, that he has an acute sense of why some surgery centers underperform financially. In a…
Supplies are one of the two biggest costs to ASCs. ASC administrators share the following three ways they cut their supply costs.
Medicare trustees said Medicare's hospital insurance trust fund would last until 2029, 12 years longer than trustees projected last year, due to cost-saving measures in the healthcare reform law, according to a report by the New York Times.