Susan Charkin, MPH, president of Healthcents, an ASC and physician specialty hospital contracting and consulting group, offers the following three reminders for ASCs negotiating contracts. 1. Carve ...

Contract negotiations adhere to a rule that 80 percent of time should be used to prepare for the negotiation and 20 percent to negotiate. To help be more effective in achieving results when you ...

With the announcement of the nursing home minimum staffing rule, I asked myself the same question as operators nationwide: how on earth are we going to pay for this? Even if nursing homes could find ...