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• Ambulatory care facilities

• Ambulatory care

• Ambulatory surgery

• Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment; Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment; Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program; Physician Self-Referral; and Patient Notification Requirements in Provider Agreements

This final rule with comment period revises the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) for CY 2012 to implement applicable statutory requirements and changes arising from our continuing experience with this system. In this final rule with comment period, we describe the changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the payment rates for Medicare hospital outpatient services paid under the OPPS. In addition, this final rule with comment period updates the revised Medicare ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system to implement applicable statutory requirements and changes arising from our continuing experience with this system. In this final rule with comment period, we set forth the relative payment weights and payment amounts for services furnished i...

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 74122, November 30, 2011
• Rules and Regulations
• Health and Human Services Department

• Ambulatory Surgery Centers Offer Another Option [Derived Headline]

YAKIMA, Wash. -- In the past three years, Patricia McGinty of Yakima has had surgeries on her neck, back, shoulders and wrists. For the big stuff, she goes to hospitals. But for minor surgeries -- like fixing the numbness in her hands caused by carpal tunnel syndrome -- she heads to Yakima Ambulatory Surgical Center.

• Yakima Herald-Republic
• October 07, 2010

• Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment; Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment; Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program; Physician Self-Referral; and Patient Notification Requirements in Provider Agreements; Corrections

This document corrects technical errors that appeared in the final rule with comment period published in the Federal Register on November 30, 2011, entitled ``Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment; Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment; Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program; Physician Self-Referral; and Patient Notification Requirements in Provider Agreements'' and in the correction notice published in the Federal Register on January 4, 2012, entitled ``.''

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 24409, April 24, 2012
• Rules and Regulations
• Health and Human Services Department

• Austintown Ambulatory Emergency Room v. Mansour, (Ohio 2011)

Court did not abuse its discretion in denying his request for a continuance of the trial that was faxed but not filed and is not currently part of the record; Damage award was supported by the evidence at trial and liability issues cannot be reviewed as a stipulation had been entered.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Non-Ambulatory Disabled Veal Calves and other Non-Ambulatory Disabled Livestock at Slaughter:

• FR, February 07, 2011
• Proposed rules
• Food Safety and Inspection Service

• CMS Proposes Quality Reporting Program For Ambulatory Surgery Centers

Recently, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed to begin implementing a quality reporting program for ambulatory surgery centers ...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• United States Law Articles in English

• Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Approval of the Application by the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities for Deeming Authority for Rural Health Clinics

This final notice announces our decision to approve the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities (AAAASF) for recognition as a national accreditation program for rural health clinics (RHCs) seeking to participate in the Medicare or Medicaid programs.

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 17068, March 23, 2012
• Notices
• Health and Human Services Department

• 45 CFR 170.304 - Specific certification criteria for Complete EHRs or EHR Modules designed for an ambulatory setting.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 45: Public Welfare

• Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Renewal of Deeming Authority of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Inc. for Medicare Advantage Health Maintenance Organizations and Local Preferred Provider Organizations

This notice announces our proposal to renew the Medicare Advantage ``deeming authority'' of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Inc. (AAAHC) for Health Maintenance Organizations and Preferred Provider Organizations for a term of 6 years. This new term of approval would begin July 11, 2012, and end July 10, 2018. This notice announces a 30-day period for public comments on the renewal of the application.

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 19290, March 30, 2012
• Notices
• Health and Human Services Department

• Infusion Pump Markets (Large Volume, Ambulatory, Insulin, Enteral and Other Pumps) Now Available at Reportsandreports

DALLAS, November 25, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- ReportsandReports announces it will carry Infusion Pump Markets (Large Volume, Ambulatory, Insulin, Enteral and Other Pumps) Research Report in its store. Browse the complete Report on: http://www.reportsandreports.com/ reports/35298-infusion-pump-markets-large- volume-ambulatory- insulin-enteral.html

• U.S. Newswire
• January 20, 2011