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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...
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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...
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by William Prentice As I write this message, Medicare has just released its 2014 payment proposal for ASCs. If this proposal is adopted, next year, ASCs will actually receive lower reimbursements for the services that they provide to Medicare beneficiaries than they...
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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...
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By William Prentice, CEO of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association As we start to prepare for the second half of 2013, key indicators and projections for the US economy continue to fluctuate. Although Wall Street showed significant gains in the early part of the...
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As part of ongoing efforts to promote safety in ambulatory surgery, ASCA is partnering with the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) of the American Hospital Association, the Harvard School of Public Health, the South Carolina Hospital Association and Westat...
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