Coding is a complex process, growing even more involved as the healthcare industry gears up to switch to ICD-10. Ladonna Schaad, coding compliance manager at abeo, answers seven of the most common questions that arise around coding issues in ambulatory…
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Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, the fourth largest Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliated company, operates health plans in Delaware, Pennsylvania and West Virginia covering approximately 5.2 million lives. This spring, Highmark announced plans to enact a new monitored anesthesia care…
The following are 10 ambulatory surgery centers that have made the news locally, at the state level or nationally in the past week.
Surgical Care Affiliates will move its Birmingham, Ala. offices to Homewood, Ala., according to a report from the Birmingham Business Journal.
According to the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, standard 8.E was the most commonly partially compliant or non-compliant standard during surveys using 2012 accreditation handbooks. Here are four tips from the AAAHC's Triangle Times for improving compliance with standard…
Healthcare revenue management and consultation firm in2itive Business Solutions partnered with Medical Recovery Services to develop and manage an exclusive patient estimator tool for hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
Five ambulatory surgery centers have listed pricing data on the website PricingHealthcare.com in June, adding three new states to the healthcare pricing database's coverage, according to a news release.
Here are five recent news updates on ambulatory surgery center companies.
All ambulatory surgery centers experience revenue leaks and it is the management's responsibility to survey business practices and find out where these losses are happening, according to an abeo blog post.
A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control has validated the World Health Organization's "Five Moments for Hand Hygiene" methodology or the HOW2 Benchmark Study, which includes a formula to estimate the number of hand hygiene opportunities per…