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Navigating the Evolving Joint Venture Landscape
Ambulatory surgery center (ASC) partnerships between hospitals and physicians are nothing new, but the field is seeing less standard agreements. From traditional hospital-physician joint ventures (JVs) to equipment-share deals, the ASC market remains flexible and dynamic.Physician-hospital JVs account for more than one quarter of ASCs.¹A proper JV can solve old problems (low reimbursements, hospital-surgeon tensions), but is complex and should ...(More)
10/5/2007
SCASCA Fights for Rights; Demands Fair Workers’ Comp Reimbursement
The South Carolina (SC) state association has been busy of late fighting the powers that be. On Sept. 29, 2006 eight SC ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and the South Carolina ASC Association (SCASCA) filed suit challenging reimbursement changes established by the SC Workers’ Compensation Commission.The Commission established a new payment system, effective Oct. 1, 2006 that limited workers’ compensation (WC) ...(More)
10/5/2007
Bariatric Surgery: Is this Service Line Right for You?
Obesity in this country has been growing at an alarming rate. Although government guidelines include healthy eating and exercise, few people actually comply. But as the rates of morbid obesity grow, physicians and patients alike are turning to what appears to be the last hope — bariatric surgery.Primary types of bariatric surgery include laparoscopic and open gastric bypass surgery, laparoscopic ...(More)
10/5/2007
You’re Getting Warmer
For most people, the term “unintended hypothermia” conjures a number of images — such as people caught in snowstorms or falling through an ice-covered pond and into the freezing water below. But unintended hypothermia doesn’t just happen in these extreme situations; in fact, the battle to keep surgery patients at a normal body temperature is a daily struggle for those ...(More)
10/5/2007
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Preventive Health Examinations Account for Approximately 1 in 12 Outpatient Visits Among U.S. AdultsAn estimated 63.5 million U.S. adults visited a physician for a preventive health or gynecological examination each year between 2002 and 2004, at an annual cost of approximately $7.8 billion, according to a report in a recent issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.“The value of many preventive ...(More)
10/5/2007
Customer Service in Healthcare: An Oxymoron?
There are some accepted axioms in the world of business, such as the fact that it takes a mere 30 seconds for a customer to form a lasting opinion from a first impression, and that it can be 10 times more costly to attract a new customer than it is to retain an existing one. Another eye-opening statistic is that ...(More)
9/7/2007
Customer Service in Healthcare: An Oxymoron?
Customer Service in Healthcare: An Oxymoron?There are some accepted axioms in the world of business, such as the fact that it takes a mere 30 seconds for a customer to form a lasting opinion from a first impression, and that it can be 10 times more costly to attract a new customer than it is to retain an existing one. ...(More)
9/7/2007
News
New Report Identifies State-Level Privacy and Security Solutions for Secure Exchange of Health InformationThe Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a report, “ Privacy and Security Solutions for Interoperable Health Information Exchange,” which review 34 state Health Information Exchange plans and identify the challenges and feasible solutions for ensuring the ...(More)
9/7/2007
Get Ready for Medicare to Change the ASC Rules
Get Ready for Medicare to Change the ASC Rulesby DONNA SANGIOVANNI, CPC, CHIAlmost 40 years ago, all surgeries were performed in a hospital setting. With the healthcare industry changing, today more then 80 percent of surgeries are done in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). This evolution has benefited the patient and the insurance industry in many ways. No longer does a ...(More)
9/7/2007
The Roadmap to Predictable Reimbursements
The Roadmap to Predictable ReimbursementsBy Azadeh FarahmandAre you a non-network provider? If the answer is yes, read on. We may be seeing the beginnings of a new trend in healthcare reimbursement as providers continue to search for ways to avoid the unpredictable and often egregiously low reimbursement rates they receive on out-of-network (OON) claims. Unless a mutually agreed upon claim ...(More)
9/7/2007
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