Fusion Anesthesia

Stay in the Know: The 85-Year-Old Total Knee Replacement Is Coming to ASCs. Can Anesthesia Handle It?

As ASCs take on higher-acuity orthopedic procedures and elderly patients, total knee replacements in patients in their 80s are increasingly shifting from inpatient settings to surgery centers. Patient selection, postoperative pain management and tightly coordinated anesthesia protocols become especially critical as case complexity rises — putting renewed pressure on anesthesia coverage models already strained by workforce shortages and reimbursement cuts.

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https://www.beckersasc.com/anesthesia/the-85-year-old-total-knee-replacement-is-coming-to-ascs-can-anesthesia-handle-it/



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Stay in the Know: The Payer Tactics Hurting ASCs Most

ASC leaders far and wide agree payers have the upper hand in reimbursement negotiations, but each has their own take on which particular set of tactics is doing the worst damage to the economics of outpatient surgery. From rates that haven't kept pace with inflation and implant carve-outs that favor hospitals to prior authorization burdens that drain administrative resources, leaders point to a set of payer tactics that are slowly hollowing out what should be one of the most cost-efficient care settings in the healthcare system.

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https://www.beckersasc.com/asc-coding-billing-and-collections/the-payer-tactics-hurting-ascs-most/



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