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You and your facility waited more than a year for the final revisions to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), but are they really good news?
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The final version of the recently proposed changes to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) takes effect Nov. 10.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published proposed payment rates for hospital outpatient services, effective Jan. 1, 2004, and new rates for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), effective Oct. 1, 2003.
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Beginning Oct. 16, providers, with a few exceptions, are required to submit all Medicare claims electronically. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has distributed guidance on how to comply with transactions and code sets for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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Death or injury is 10 times more likely to occur in a doctors office than at outpatient clinics, according to a just-published review of surgeries performed in U.S. doctors offices.
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Although the approach differs from surveyor to surveyor, same-day surgery programs that recently have undergone accreditation surveys notice that surveyors are more interactive with staff and less reliant on policies.
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Because the National Patient Safety Goals from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations emphasize clear communication between caregivers, pay attention
to the legibility of your records, says Suzanne Fornelli, RN, BSN, administrator of The Surgery Center at Southwoods in Youngstown, OH.
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Most same-day surgery providers agree that propofol offers great advantages in outpatient surgery: It hastens patient recovery and is easy to titrate.
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Buying equipment and servicing it can be a major drain on your programs finances. But you can save a significant amount of money by being actively involved in purchasing and maintaining equipment, says Jerry Henderson, RN, CNOR, CASC, executive director of SurgiCenter of Baltimore in Owings Mills, MD.
