Beyond their calls for increased outpatient payments, hospitals are urging the Biden administration to reconsider a plan for new care requirements that they say would “inadvertently reduce access to ...

Under a final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, hospital outpatient facilities and ambulatory surgical centers will get a 2.9% Medicare pay increase next year, up from the ...

At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 28, Sandra Jones, FHFMA, LHRM, CASC, owner, Ambulatory Strategies, Inc., and an executive vice president with ASD Management ...

Nancy Tuders, FACDONA, IP-BC, AS-BC and QAPI-BC Q: I am a DON at a facility with a new administrator who has not been very engaged in our QAPI meetings. What can I share with her to make our meetings ...