Outpatient procedures may be costing you millions.
While hospitals wait for the expected implementation date of the Health Care Financing Administration's rules on ambulatory patient classifications, they could be losing millions by handling some surgical procedures on an outpatient rather than an inpatient basis. Some of those procedures include: laparoscopic cholecystectomy, pacemaker replacement, angioplasties, and stent placements.
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