In an updated analysis of a 2020 report, “Reducing Medicare Costs by Migrating Volume from Hospital Outpatient Departments to Ambulatory Surgery Centers,” the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association ...
A new study suggests "upcoding" practices are growing across outpatient service lines. The report, compiled by researchers at Trilliant Health, found that the share of visits that were coded at higher ...
When is the last time your hospital, health system or organization looked at codes and clinical documentation to ensure everything was compliant with law and best practices? If revenue cycle teams are ...
This article examines how prices, insurer payments, and patient payments for outpatient surgeries differ by site of care and network status. Objective: To examine how site of care and insurance ...
The following article is written by Caryl A. Serbin, RN, BSN, LHRM, executive vice president and chief strategy officer of SourceMedical. Although most financial analysts are forecasting a continuing ...
Ambulatory surgical centers are gaining traction in the outpatient market. ASCs continue to perform more than half of all U.S. outpatient surgical procedures, and they can expect to see greater ...
Health systems are turning to ambulatory strategies in response to patient expectations for convenience, workforce shortages and financial pressures, according to a new report from the Center for ...