As outpatient surgery continues its rapid migration from hospitals, a tension is emerging: the same payers pushing care into lower-cost settings are also making it harder to deliver it. From prior ...

When is the last time your hospital, health system or organization looked at codes and clinical documentation to ensure everything was compliant with law and best practices? If revenue cycle teams are ...

The following article is written by Caryl A. Serbin, RN, BSN, LHRM, executive vice president and chief strategy officer of SourceMedical. Although most financial analysts are forecasting a continuing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . December 2020 saw CMS finalize a proposal to eliminate the inpatient only list in a 3-year transitional period, ...

A new study suggests "upcoding" practices are growing across outpatient service lines. The report, compiled by researchers at Trilliant Health, found that the share of visits that were coded at higher ...

This article examines how prices, insurer payments, and patient payments for outpatient surgeries differ by site of care and network status. Objective: To examine how site of care and insurance ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hospital participation in BPCI Advanced reduced total episode spending for outpatient surgery. Inpatient ...

The trend towards ambulatory surgery for procedures previously limited to the inpatient setting is well established. [6,7,8,9,10,11] Trends in spinal surgery towards less invasive approaches and ...