Starting October 1, 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began requiring quality reports on Medicare claim forms from ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). From all indications, complications were few, and ASCs already are using the new statistics to gain insight into operational trends.
For decades, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) have shown their ability…
Once limited to hospital inpatient settings, total joint surgery is…
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