Pay-Per-View: Don’t overlook the new ASC payment system
APCs Weekly Monitor, September 28, 2007
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Like many hospitals in the healthcare industry, your hospital/outpatient facility may be overwhelmed by all of the changes in the 2008 OPPS proposed rule. Numerous questions still loom as to whether certain aspects of the proposed rule will come out in the wash or whether they'll persist to the final rule.
You might think that the ASC rule has no influence on the operations of your hospital/outpatient facility-but that line of thinking could lead to some negative repercussions.
Click here to read more about how the ASC final rule is applicable to your outpatient facility. Briefings on APCs subscribers have free access to this article in the October issue via their online subscriptions.
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