In the long run, this will only slow down, not defeat, the fact that ASCs are the preferred site of surgical services.
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Need a marketing consultant to help grow your ASC? You might want to check with your carriers first.
Laugh about it or cry about it, the bottom line is the same: they are cutting costs by moving all cases that can be moved out of the hospital out of the hospital. Where does that leave you?
Procedures that previously could be performed, meaning performed and reimbursed, only in a hospital setting, whether inpatient or outpatient, can now be performed in an ASC.
Ride along with Mark as he discusses the pitfalls of being all too focused on closing a deal, instead of closing a good deal.
Need a marketing consultant to help grow your ASC? You might want to check with your carriers first. Background As the latest step in a trend that began several years ago, effective for 2021, CMS added 267 new codes to Medicare’s ASC covered procedures list. These are the codes for procedures that Medicare recognizes for […]
We used to joke about the name of Midway Hospital, an acute care hospital in L.A., saying that it was midway between life and death.
An outsider with no knowledge of any single fraudulent claim brings a False Claims Act suit. What you need to know.
We used to joke about the name of Midway Hospital, an acute care hospital in L.A., saying that it was midway between life and death.
An anesthesiologist, commenting on my theme that inpatient care is becoming outpatient care and that the center of outpatient care isn’t the hospital but the freestanding facility, in his case the ASC, told me that I was missing an element in the analysis.
Back in October, 2020, I wrote, in a post called City Loses Hospitals Like We Lose Our Keys…