According to CMS's recovery audit contractor (RAC) evaluation report, here are the top five hospital services with overpayments from 2005 through March 27.
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This is a review of claim facts and corrective actions taken for excisional debridements (complex review, incorrect coding), one of the top five overpaid services in inpatient hospitals, as explained in CMS's recovery audit contractor evaluation report.
Citing "concerns about physicians responding to incentive payment and shared savings programs by stinting, cherry picking, steering and making quicker-sicker discharges," CMS has proposed a self-referral exception for such incentive and gain-sharing programs aimed at preventing these potential issues while…
Q: What are you doing to recruit and retain physicians for practicing at your ASC? What is your best advice for recruiting physicians to buy into your ASC?
Healthy accounts receivable (A/R) makes for a fiscally healthy surgery center. Analyzing this one balance sheet item will give you a reasonable idea of the fiscal integrity of your center. In dozens of surgical facilities (and clinics as well), we…
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As acute care hospitals face growing competition, protecting their orthopedic surgery departments becomes increasingly valuable. Not-for-profit acute care hospitals depend on that revenue to subsidize money-losing services and attract new patients. Reimbursements from public and private insurers for orthopedic surgery…
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Amkai has announced that it was awarded contracts by 20 facilities during June to provide them with the company's AmkaiOffice management system. These successes follow the major launch of AmkaiOffice 2.0 at the recent ASC Association convention in San Antonio.…
U.S. News & World Report has published its annual list of "America's Best Hospitals."
Executives at Blue Cross and Highmark, which have a proposed merger that would make them the largest insurer in Pennsylvania, faced questioning during a hearing concerning negotiating tactics and leverage if the merger is approved, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.