Ambulatory surgery means surgical procedures that include but are not limited to those recognized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), the Department’s Division of Medical Assistance (“DMA”), the State Health Benefit Plans, or by any successor entities, as reimbursable ambulatory surgery procedures. Ambulatory surgery is provided only to patients who are admitted to a facility which offers ambulatory surgery and which does not admit patients for treatment that normally requires stays that are overnight or exceed 24 hours and which does not provide accommodations for treatment of patients for periods of twenty-four hours or longer.
Ambulatory surgery means surgery requiring a period of post-operative observation but not requiring overnight hospitalization. This includes procedures involving any cutting instrument, procedures involving microscopic or endoscopic surgery, and procedures involving the use of a laser for the removal or repair of an organ or other tissue. For purposes of this Chapter, ambulatory surgery is synonymous with outpatient surgery.
Ambulatory surgery means surgical procedures that are more complex than office procedures performed under local anesthesia, but less complex than major procedures requiring prolonged postoperative monitoring and hospital care to ensure safe recovery and desirable results. General anesthesia is used in most cases. The patient must arrive at the facility and expect to be discharged on the same day. Ambulatory surgery shall only be performed by physicians or dentists licensed to practice in the State of Mississippi.
Examples of Ambulatory surgery in a sentence
Ambulatory surgery Services means surgery which does not require admission to a Hospital (or similar facility) as a regis- tered bed patient.
Ambulatory surgery centers/locations were included in the National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery which was conducted in 1994-96 and again in 2006.
Outpatient hospital visit, twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per visit. Ambulatory surgery, fifty dollars ($50.00) per visit.
Ambulatory surgery centers are distinct from same day surgical units within the hospital outpatient departments for purposes of Medicare payment.
Ambulatory surgery can be located either in hospitals or in independent sites.
More Definitions of Ambulatory surgery
Ambulatory surgery means a surgical procedure that is not expected to require an inpatient hospital admission.
Ambulatory surgery means surgical procedures performed that do not require an overnight hospital stay. Procedures can be performed in a hospital or a licensed surgical center. Also called Outpatient Surgery.
Ambulatory surgery means services provided in the operating room but the patient stay is anticipated to be less than 24 hours.
Ambulatory surgery. Center shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 2.4.
Ambulatory surgery means a surgery performed‐
Ambulatory surgery means surgery which is performed on an outpatient
Ambulatory surgery means surgery which is performed on an outpatient basis in a facility which is not located in a hospital; on patients who do not require hospitalization but who do require constant medical supervision following the surgical procedure performed and whose total length of stay does not exceed a total of 8 hours (4 hours surgical time; 4 hour recovery time).