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How would you like to go from receiving no payment increases from one of your payers to receiving rate increases of 3% to 11% four years in a row? Sound impossible? Not for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in Ohio, which became proactive in educating their workers compensation board after receiving no payment increases for three years in a row.
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Has your organization posted core measures data for cardiac patients on your web site? If not, is this because your results arent something you want to highlight?
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Two of your surgeons want you to purchase an expensive piece of technology, but youre wary because youre unsure how much they will use it. What should you do?
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Imagine managing your household budget with paychecks that were two, three, or four months late. How would you pay your mortgage, buy your groceries, or feed your family?
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Getting surgeons to operate out of your ORs shouldnt be an issue. Surgery is up everywhere, and while 200 new surgery centers are under construction right now, there is not a glut of places where surgeons can operate.
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Never let up. That is what Greenville (SC) Hospital System learned about reducing sharps injuries in the operating room. It takes a sustained effort to keep rates down.
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Many insurance companies that arent paying the full patient bills sent to them from ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) seem to have taken the stance, let em sue us, says Thomas J. Pliura, MD, JD, physician and attorney at law in Le Roy, IL. So thats exactly what some surgery centers are doing, he says.
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The Wilmette, IL-based Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Cares (AAAHC) 2005 Achieving Accreditation conferences will focus on 2005 standards changes, including the completely revised Chapter 5: Quality Management and Improvement.
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The 2005 standards revisions for The American Association for the Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities (AAAASF) in Gurnee, IL, simplify the requirements for the increasing number of office-based surgery practices seeking accreditation.