1. Can an ASC offer hospital-employed physicians incentives to use an ASC? It is generally improper to provide financial incentives to a physician in exchange for referring cases to a surgery center. For example, one could not offer hospital-employed physicians…
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It’s easy to get caught up in focusing on the clinical side of your ASC; after all, bringing in procedures and performing them efficiently and at a high level of quality are the foremost keys to producing revenue. But when…
The ability to perform total knee arthroplasty, or TKA, in the ASC setting depends on state law — you must be allowed to keep patients up to 23 hours, if necessary — but if your state permits overnight stays, such…
An ongoing investigation into out-of-network billing practices by the New York state comptroller has resulted in allegations against a surgery center on Long Island that it inflated bills which cost the state $1 million, according to an audit report from…
If one of your methods for keeping employees connected to the workplace includes handing out BlackBerrys, Treos or other personal digital assistant devices, you may be treading on thin legal ice, according to a story that will run in the…
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A new study claims that an increasing number of privately insured patients are being referred for imaging scans by physicians who are referring them to their own facilities or machines, according to HealthDay News.
The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) is offering a live Ambulatory Surgery Administrator Certificate Program in San Antonio, Tex., on May 18-19, following the 2008 ASC Association meeting.
Nashville's HealthMark Partners (HMP) has announced that it and Atlanta-based Alliance Surgery (ASI) have combined their companies through a stock-for-stock exchange.
The May/June edition of the Becker's ASC Review, featuring in-depth coverage of anesthesia, spine and orthopedics business and clinical issues for ASCS, is now online.
The Senate conferees' offer to the House conferees to remove the language on physician-owned hospitals from the farm bill (H.R. 2419) was accepted, and the bill no longer includes a provision banning self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals.