Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) in several states recently ratcheted up their documentation requirements for joint replacement surgery and other orthopedic procedures. For hospital ORs, these changes represent the tip of an iceberg that calls for careful navigation.
A wave of policy and regulatory changes is shaking up…
Takeaways • Although the central tenets of value-based healthcare have…
“Surgeons are the only people trained to provide surgery—life-saving care,"…