Legislative proposals would require comparable pricing between hospital-owned outpatient offices and independent practices.

If ChristianaCare completes the deal, it will significantly increase its presence in Delaware County, where the nonprofit is ...

Common medical procedures can cost as much as 58% more at hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) than they do at ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) or doctor offices, according to a new Blue Cross ...

Because the facility is now part of the hospital network, patients can be billed as receiving those services from an outpatient hospital department. Those prices have risen faster — and much ...

The title of that section is “Treatment of Off-Campus Outpatient Departments of a Provider.” It will have a material impact on Medicare reimbursement for services rendered by an off-campus ...

Medicare pays hospital outpatient departments higher rates than physician-owned practices, leading to higher spending and incentivizing hospitals to acquire physician practices. The Bipartisan ...

When should you go to the outpatient emergency service, known in Slovak as 'pohotovosť' or hospital emergency department, or 'urgent' in Slovak? On what grounds you should call an ambulance? You ...

More hospitals – many of which are converting outpatient departments to ambulatory surgical centers -- and private equity investors are entering an ambulatory surgery center market valued at $43 ...

were in hospital outpatient departments. The rate of PCIs in ASC increased from 0.01 per 10,000 person-years in 2018 to 0.87 in 2022. Patients treated in ASCs were more often in the Southern ...

A couple of things factored into the bill being so incredibly high, including that the Durham facility, while looking like an ordinary PT facility, is actually an outpatient department of ...

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) has announced a key milestone in Penzance with the topping out of West Cornwall Hospital’s new outpatient department. The roofing is complete and ...

KINGSTON, JAMAICA – Staff of Medical Disposables and Supplies (MDS), along with family, on Friday joined forces with the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) to refresh the Outpatient Department ...