they want every Tuesday at 7 a.m., that's prime time for cataract sur-
gery."
While cataract patients are nearly always Medicare patients, retina
patients aren't. So negotiating contracts with private payers is critical
to making your cases pay, says Mary Meier, BS, CPC, administrator of
the Eye Center of Columbus in Ohio.
"We look at our top procedures — case costs, overhead, staff — and
make sure even our highest-cost cases can be reimbursed at a profit.
If we can show them how much less expensive, more efficient and
safer it is than at a hospital, private payers love that," she says. OSM
E-mail dbernard@outpatientsurgery.net.
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