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 […]
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Another week, another hospital closes. Well, at least one.
Another week, another hospital closes. Well, at least one.
Yes, this is a popular topic for the blog, because each additional hospital closure underscores the risk for physicians and medical groups that don’t spread risk. The lesson applies to both hospital-based and office-based physicians, although not necessarily equally.
A diamond and a rock, sitting side by side. Both discovered near the bottom of the Udachny diamond mine in the Sakha Republic region of Russia, one of the world’s ten deepest open-pit diamond mines.
Back in October, 2020, I wrote, in a post called City Loses Hospitals Like We Lose Our Keys…
Evolutionary psychologists say that the reason we see a stick on the trail ahead of us as a snake is that it’s far better for our survival to see sticks as snakes than snakes as sticks.
Quick quiz: If a patient or a payor has the choice of having a procedure performed (A) on a hospital inpatient basis, or (B) on an outpatient basis, then, assuming it’s safe to perform that procedure on that patient in either setting, at which setting will it be performed?
Evolutionary psychologists say that the reason we see a stick on the trail ahead of us as a snake…
Chances are, you’ve lost your keys and maybe even your wallet. But have you ever lost a hospital?
Evolutionary psychologists say that the reason we see a stick on the trail ahead of us as a snake…
