NovaMed has announced that it has acquired a 51 percent interest in the Interventional Pain Management Center, an ASC with four operating rooms located in Baton Rouge, La.
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In a recent article in Modern Healthcare, it was reported that there are “Savings still seen in House measure on doc-ownership of hospitals: CBO (Congressional Budget Office).” I find it almost laughable that there are folks in Washington that think…
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CMS has issued a proposed rule that will update payment rates for calendar year 2009 and aims to improve quality of services provided in HOPDs and ASCs by paying based on quality reporting.
You know you have to track quality and patient satisfaction indicators. Your accreditation agency requires it; increasingly, your third-party insurers may require reporting of data; and, soon, CMS will ask you to track and report selected indicators. But how much…
Two recent actions, one by the Office of the New York State Comptroller, and one a court decision that comes out of a New Jersey case, further highlight the need for ASCs to be very cautious in their actions relating…
The reimbursement rates for many ASC procedures have benefited and will benefit under the new Medicare payment system. One such procedure seeing a noticeable reimbursement boost is endoscopy with ethmoidectomy (surgical drainage of the ethmoid sinus). Total endoscopy with ethmoidectomy…