Hospitals purchased physician practices, employed and otherwise aligned physicians, and pushed into outpatient care.
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Hospitals purchased physician practices, employed and otherwise aligned physicians, and pushed into outpatient care.
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.
You can see why it’s so tempting for unscrupulous hospital CEOs to offer kickbacks to physicians.
Need a marketing consultant to help grow your ASC? You might want to check with your carriers first.
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.
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 […]
An outsider with no knowledge of any single fraudulent claim brings a False Claims Act suit. What you need to know.
Back in October, 2020, I wrote, in a post called City Loses Hospitals Like We Lose Our Keys…
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?