ASC Management Issues
Economic Stimulus Package Sends Clear Message: Adopt EHR Technology Now or Pay the Price Later
Monday, March 16th, 2009By improving the efficiency and quality of health care services, electronic health records (EHRs) have been hailed as a promising new component of America’s future health care industry. However, due to cost and other perceived implementation obstacles,…
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Stimulus Plan Impacting Health Care
Friday, February 13th, 2009In an article published February 9 on Bloomberg.com, Betsy McCaughey, former lieutenant governor of New York and adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, is critical of the stimulus package and “health provisions slipped in without discussion.” Click here to read the rest.
Kathy Bryant’s Year in Review
Friday, January 30th, 2009Two big changes confronted ASCs on January 1, 2008. Medicare began paying ASCs based on a new payment system that varied greatly from its predecessor, and the new ASC Association, formed through the merger of the two previous national ASC Associations, began advocating for ASCs in Washington, D.C., and in forums across the country. As…
Fatal Patient Fall Leads to Lawsuit
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008Danid Bernard
Outpatient Surgery Magazine
The family of a Massachusetts woman who died after falling from an OR table has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against four hospital staff members believed to be present at the time of the fall.
A surgical team had completed a routine hip replacement procedure on Catherine O’Donnell…
30 Years Later, Ambulatory Surgery is Braced for Market, Payment Changes, New ASC Payment System, Quality Reporting to Affect Direction
Monday, January 1st, 2007Even after 30 years, the outpatient surgery field still is constantly adjusting to changes in procedures, policies, and payments.
Consider these recent actions:
*Surgical procedures are moving not only from traditional hospital-based setting into ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), but also to physician offices.
*A payer has decreased payments for some procedures in…
Quality Reporting on the ASC Side
Monday, January 1st, 2007As outpatient surgical care has shifted from hospitals to alternative locations, the patient safety and quality regulations and the cost and quality reporting requirements have not moved into that setting, says Ellen Pryga, director of policy for the American Hospital Association in Washington, DC. “We need to get to a place where we have comparable…