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Replacing or Improving ACA Likely Will Be Major Challenge
The ACA isn’t perfect, but it’s possible that repealing it could create even more issues for patients and providers.
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Here’s What Surgeons Need to Know About MIPS
To earn a bonus under MIPS, physicians must show high-quality, efficient care by documenting their information for four metrics.
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MACRA and ACA Might or Might Not Affect ASCs in 2017
Ambulatory surgery centers, like other healthcare providers, are waiting to see how expected change or repeal of the Affordable Care Act might affect MACRA, surgeons, and ASCs.
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Here are Some Sample Items From New HFAP Requirements
HFAP has released new environmental rules in its accreditation requirements for ASCs.
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HFAP Changes Standards After Updated Life Safety Code Rules
ASCs must meet environmental safety standards, but they do not always put the most knowledgeable people in charge of this task, which could result in a big mistake.
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Ready for That Survey? Here are Some Helpful Tips
Here’s what everyone about to be surveyed has in common: Fear.
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Message to Surgery Industry: Here Are the Things I Notice
I have worked in the surgery industry for four decades and during that time, I have noticed things that perhaps others have not. The following are some of my observations, with which you may or may not agree.
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Revisit Staff’s Hand Hygiene to Address Infection Control
Take May 5 — World Hand Hygiene Day — to make sure infection control and hand hygiene rules and practices are up to date, incorporating both regulatory and advisory guidelines.
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Create Sound Financial Plan to Carry ASC Through 2017
Strategic planning is a little-recognized talent that surgery centers should develop if they hope to achieve their goals and prepare for future growth.
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Study Data Before Making Workflow or Productivity Changes
The first step to improving efficiency and productivity is to collect metrics and employee workflow habits.