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New Jersey Surgery Centers Face Major Changes This Year
New Jersey’s new law about ASCs might change the state’s ASC landscape as hundreds of registered (but unlicensed) ASCs must decide whether they will apply for licensure by January 2019. If they do not apply, they may have to close their surgery operations or sell their companies.
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Patient Collection at the Door
Calculating patient responsibility is complex and time-consuming. One solution is to load a facility’s payer contracts into a cloud-based software tool that can manage any type of payer arrangement.
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TeamSTEPPS Concept Helps ASCs Improve Patient Safety
A program that started as a module used to train military helicopter pilots has been modified for surgery centers, which can help staff build communication and teamwork skills.
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Common Infection Control Findings During ASC Surveys
An ASC might follow processes that appear to be adequate or even best practices when it comes to infection prevention. Then, a surveyor visits, and a deficiency appears.
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Infection Prevention Best Practices
Infection prevention in surgery centers begins with action and commitment at the top. ASC leaders must commit to supporting the infection preventionists, staff education, monitoring reprocessing, disinfection, hand hygiene, surgical site infection prevention strategies, and other prevention activities.
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The Essential Components of an ASC Infection Control Program
Surgery centers will fulfill the requirements of an infection prevention program if they focus on all aspects regulators and accrediting agencies require.
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Infection Concerns Gain FDA Attention
The FDA has focused on scope cleaning in recent months, highlighting the potential for infections. The agency alerted healthcare providers to the risk of cross-contamination with some connectors used in gastrointestinal endoscopy. Regulators warned three duodenoscope manufacturers that they must comply with a federal order to conduct postmarket surveillance studies that assess duodenoscope reprocessing.
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Duodenoscope Manufacturers Receive FDA Warning Letters
Agency told three leading manufacturers that they had not conducted postmarket surveillance on their duodenoscopes. The companies were told to take specific steps to correct the noted violations, document those corrective actions, and send information to the FDA.
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Payer Contracts, Billing, Collections, and Surgeon Incentives
Responding to requests for more tips about billing, contracts, and how to build incentives for surgeons to use your facility, both hospitals and ASCs.
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Opioid Use Assessment Can Reduce Overprescribing
Some hospitals and doctors nationwide are reducing or eliminating opioid prescriptions. For ASCs, opioids still serve an important purpose. However, providers should ask whether an opioid prescription is what’s best for patients at risk of addiction to the drug.