ASCA

by William Prentice Data collection for a national ASC quality reporting program tied to the services that ASCs provide to Medicare beneficiaries and coordinated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began in 2012. Believing that a national ASC...

by William Prentice In 2013, an analysis conducted by researchers at the University of California-Berkeley Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare revealed that between 2008 and 2011, ASCs saved Medicare and its beneficiaries $7.5...

by William Prentice Reading the latest news headlines or listening to the association in the U.S. that most popular television and radio talk shows, it would be easy to conclude that the only important news about healthcare in the U.S. today is how everyone is...

by William Prentice Changes in the interpretive guidelines for ASC surveyors that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued recently are causing many ASCs to reexamine their policies concerning advance directives and to make changes in those...