In anterior cervical fusion procedures, the procedure is performed through an incision on the front of the neck just to the side, to avoid the trachea, esophagus and thyroid gland. There was a major ...
CMS’ proposed 2027 payment rule, and its continued phase-out of the inpatient-only list opens the door for more procedures to move into ASCs — but not every practice is positioned to walk through it.
Spine surgery has historically operated under two sets of economics: one determined by the care delivered and another by the ...
CMS’ 2027 payment rule for ASCs, proposed July 2, projects a 2.4% effective update overall — the same headline figure hospital outpatient departments are set to receive. But that number masks sharply ...
Payer consolidation has accelerated to a pace that most ASC administrators did not build into their contracting assumptions. Cigna sold its Medicare Advantage business to Health Care Service Corp. in ...
Vermont has become the 26th state to opt out of federal regulations requiring physician supervision of CRNAs, following Gov. Phil Scott’s letter to CMS on July 2, according to a July 10 news release ...
The way in which payers set their rates for anesthesiology services is causing many physicians to go around them, looking for ways to provide care without dealing with insurance companies. Payers ...
ASC leaders’ approaches vary with respect to the functions they outsource and those they keep local, with the split coming down to what can be standardized and what cannot. Megan Friedman, DO, ...
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green has signed three healthcare-related bills into law, including a measure requiring health insurance plans to cover follow-up colonoscopies after a positive screening test with no ...
ASC leaders warn a proposed CMS rule aimed at rooting out Medicare fraud could have an unintended consequence, leading them to lose enrollment because of where they operate. Tucked inside the CY 2027 ...
CMS wants to send even more surgical volume ASCs’ way — and some leaders think their case lists are about to grow relatively quickly. The agency proposed a rule July 2 that would revise Medicare ...
ASC leaders and anesthesia executives say the flat annual subsidy, which long has been treated as the cost of keeping ORs ...
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