Articles Tagged With: ascs
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Managing and Mingling Hospital, ASC Cultures
Hospitals continue outsourcing to ASCs, causing intermingling of services and cultures that challenge both. Surgery centers decided they could improve the services in their own facilities better than in the traditional hospital environment. However, hospitals have made great strides in the improvement of their services and are eager to joint venture with surgeons in several ways.
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Similar Safety Profiles for HOPDs, ASCs Post-Hip Surgery
A group of investigators have observed postsurgery complications for hip arthroscopy are similar for patients treated in both hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers. Further, there are low complication rates in both settings.
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Measures Added to Hospital, ASC Quality Program
CMS did not propose to add new measures to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality Reporting Program for 2018 or 2019 payment determinations, the ASC Association said. However, the agency proposed that seven measures be added for 2020 payment determinations for ASCs and hospital outpatient departments.
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ASCs: Appeal non-compliance with quality reporting
Ambulatory surgery centers subject to a reduction in Medicare outpatient payments in calendar year 2016 due to non-compliance with the ASC quality reporting program may appeal by submitting a reconsideration request by March 17, according to the American Hospital Association (AHA), which credits the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services with this information.
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Price increases compared for ASCs, hospitals
The proliferation of ambulatory surgery centers has not led to a decrease in hospital outpatient surgery department prices, according to a new study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.