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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Mitigating Against Risk to Physician Groups of Hospital Closure – Podcast
Another week, another hospital closes. Well, at least one.
Mitigating Against Risk to Physician Groups of Hospital Closure – Medical Group Minute
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.
What The Government Doesn’t Know About Value
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.
Chicago’s Oldest Hospital to Close. Provides Lesson On Not Opening Another One.
Back in October, 2020, I wrote, in a post called City Loses Hospitals Like We Lose Our Keys…
What Do You Call A Hospital With Irrelevant ORs Other Than “Bankrupt”? – Podcast
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.
More On What Do You Call a Hospital with Irrelevant ORs Other Than “Bankrupt”?
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?
City Loses Hospitals Like We Lose Our Keys
Chances are, you’ve lost your keys and maybe even your wallet. But have you ever lost a hospital?
Hospitals Beg to Be Aligned by Physicians! – Medical Group Minute
Over the past decade or so, hospitals have spent countless hundreds of millions of dollars “aligning” physicians. But now it’s hospitals that are begging to be aligned.
Yes, You Can Build a Health System Without a Hospital – Podcast
Call them mental models, call them viewpoints, the point is the same: the box in which we conceive of what’s possible serves as an artificial barrier that confines our thinking.