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A surgery center opens in a community, and rumors are spread about the quality of care provided by the physicians there.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has clarified Medicare policy for payment and billing of services such as implants and prosthetics that are not covered by the ambulatory surgery center (ASC) facility fee. The notice informs providers about which additional services are to be paid and to whom they are to be billed.
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You won't get paid for a procedure until you bill for it. That's why participants in the Ambulatory Surgery Non-Clinical Study for Colonoscopy focus on getting payments upfront and to getting bills out to insurance companies and Medicare quickly.
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In some long-awaited good news for surgical hospitals, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has publicly announced that it doesn't plan to extend the moratorium. However, specialty hospitals that open in the future will face tighter scrutiny, according to testimony by CMS administrator Mark McClellan before a Senate Finance Committee.
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Having a dedicated social worker who works with local homeless shelters to place patients has significantly reduced the length of stay for homeless patients at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will extend coverage for the home use of oxygen to Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in a CMS-approved clinical trial sponsored by the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute.
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While the amount of money Medicare spends on chronically ill patients varies greatly from state to state, researchers at Dartmouth Medical School found no correlation between higher spending and better health.
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Hospital discharge planners must use their ingenuity to find a discharge destination for undocumented workers who need post-acute care.
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A Six Sigma initiative to improve care for ventilator patients has decreased ventilators days by more than 50% at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL.
