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 ...

From CMS updates to certificate-of-need laws, several policy changes in the last 18 months signal a major shift in how ASCs are taxed, licensed and regulated at both the state and federal levels.

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 ...