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Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

A Kentucky congressman is urging surgical facilities to contact their members of Congress and request that they sign his letter demanding changes to...

N.J. Posts ASC Inspection Reports Online

State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

Are Opioids Necessary?

While it's not always practical, or even possible, to eliminate opioids from your post-op pain management regiment, reducing their use in favor of n...

Archive > March, 2006 Vol. VII, No. 3

Coding & Billing

Ready for the ASC Rollback?

Cristina Bentin, CCS-P, CPC-H, CMA

Cristina Bentin, CCS-P, CPC-H, CMA Ambulatory surgery center owners and operators are no doubt looking forward to 2008, when ASCs likely will be reimbursed at 75 percent of the hospital outpatient department rate. But a year before Medicare brings ambulatory payment rates into parity with hospital outpatient rates, it will reduce the rates on 280 procedures whose current ASC payments are higher than hospital payments for the same procedures to the hospital rate.

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