ambulatory surgery centers

Ambulatory Surgery Centers not Responsible for Increased Costs

The author contends that ASCs are reimbursed at almost half of the hospital rates in Oregon and nationwide.

OPINION -- We respectfully disagree with the July 29, 2015 article “Hospitals, Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Specialists Drive up Costs.” While healthcare costs are indeed increasing, it

By:

Chris Skagen

Surgery Centers Complain They’re Being Shut Out of CCOs

Ambulatory surgery center representatives worry that hospital-dominated CCOs might not be inclined to hire their services, despite lower costs. The CCOs deny the claim, with the FamilyCare CEO calling it “horse puckey.”

By:

Christopher David Gray

Regence and Ambulatory Surgery Centers Reach Compromise

Regence BlueCross BlueShield and other insurance companies that don’t want to pay surgery centers directly will have to send policyholders a check that they cannot cash without the surgery centers’ signature. The centers have been forced to send patients to collection agencies after the payments for their surgeries have gone missing.

June 17, 2013 — A measure that would cramp down on an abusive payment practice to ambulatory surgical centers by Regence BlueCross BlueShield has been resurrected and attached in the House to another bill, Senate Bill 724, which passed the House on Friday.

By:

Christopher David Gray