While ASC facilities can expect a reduction in reimbursement in the specialties of pain management and GI in 2009, general surgery sees several procedures new to CPT and also some to the ...

In November, CMS finalized its Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System ...

For many years there were three typical owners of ambulatory surgery centers: surgeons, management and development companies, and recently hospitals/health systems. But there is a fourth group that ...