In this period of economic challenges, there may be many reasons a physician might want to cash out some of his investment in an ASC. Further, given the credit crunch, younger physicians who want to take the opportunity to buy…
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1. Movement to outpatient settings. There is a global trend across specialties, including orthopedics, neurology and cardiology, that increasingly complex procedures are moving toward outpatient settings.
While the expanded list of Medicare-approved procedures may have resulted (or will result) in your ASC’s performing new procedures this year, this does not mean you can or should be any less careful with how you code your older procedures.…
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…
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…
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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…
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.