Recovery audit contractors are expected to expand beyond hospitals and spend more time on physicians' billing, shifting from automated to complex reviews of these claims, according to Paul Spencer, a consultant at Fi-Med Management in Wauwautosa, Wis.
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The transforminal lumbar interbody fusion procedure is well-known among spine surgeons, and new advances in technology have made it possible to perform the TLIF on patients with chronic back pain as a minimally invasive procedure. When performing the procedure, the…
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A new $3.2 million surgery center has broken ground in Waterloo, Ill., according to a report from Suburban Journals.
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Implants are one of the most expensive items needed for orthopedic-driven ASCs. Julie Martin, assistant vice president for surgical services for all three campuses of HealthOne in Denver, and Meg Tomlinson, administrator at Metrocrest Surgery Center in Carrollton, Texas, discuss…
Since EMR systems are often designed for the hospital setting, ASC administrators may face significant hurdles in implementing a system. Industry experts discuss five things every ASC leader should know about implementing EMR in a surgery center.
In response to the Becker's Hospital Review report, "Senate Passes One-Month Fee Fix; House to Vote Just Before Deadline," a comment attributed to the American Medical Association read as the following:
Amgad Hessein, MD, a pain management physician and anesthesiologist from Newark, N.J., has been arrested on charges he had submitted approximately $52 million in false claims to Medicare and private insurers, according to a New Jersey Newsroom report.
The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses' board of directors have unanimously endorsed several organizations' joint position on immediate-use steam sterilization, previously known as flash sterilization, according to an AORN Connections news report.