On Tuesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the final Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rule for 2022. The final rule contains a substantial hike in the civil monetary penalty for hospitals not complying with price transparency rules, with a minimum $300 per day for hospitals with 30 or fewer...
Cases of COVID-19 appear to be on the downward trend nationally, as the number of new cases on October 12 falls to 111,707. Last month at this time, the surge related to the Delta variant of COVID-19 was at its worst with a seven-day average of over 175,000 new cases per day. There were 1,938 new deaths related to the coronavirus on...
Savings were reported from 2008 to 2011 in the study by Advancing Surgical Care; authors determined ASCs have the potential to save the Medicare program and its beneficiaries up to $57.6 billion more over the next decade.
This study examines ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), which are technologically advanced medical facilities that...
