When they are done on an outpatient basis, the very same procedures won’t come with a possible three-day stay needed to trigger coverage of skilled nursing care.

CMS is moving a major share of complex procedures out of the inpatient-only bucket and into outpatient settings, a shift ASC leaders say could accelerate industry growth, especially in spine, ...

CMS will make significant changes to ASC and outpatient surgery reimbursement next year. In the 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Final Rule, published ...

There's a good chance you're either using checklists to record and strike through one-off tasks or you're not using them at all. Either way, you're missing out on an enormous boost in productivity and ...

Additionally, they removed 16 other procedures recommended by the Hospital Outpatient Payment Panel. A version of this article was first published February 8, 2021, by HCPro's Revenue Cycle Advisor, a ...

Hospital groups and patient advocacy organizations clashed over potential benefits and harms of the latest Medicare payment policies and rates for hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgical center ...

Just because a procedure is routine doesn't mean we carry around a list in our heads of every single step. For routine but infrequent tasks making a procedure list ensures a job is done efficiently ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has provided a major reimbursement update for cardiac ablation ...