CMS isn’t just tweaking ASC policies in 2026; it’s remolding the financial and regulatory foundation of outpatient surgery. From a major expansion of procedures allowed in the setting to the phaseout ...

Shelly Cronin, CPC, CPMA, CANPC, CGSC, CGIC, CEU vendor department manager for AAPC, discusses common mistakes made in GI ambulatory surgery center coding and what coders need to know about changes to ...

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 ...