Anesthesia practices considering expansion into the outpatient setting should weigh several factors before taking action, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira.
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Minneapolis-based Nura, a pain clinic, will begin offering free Narcan kits to certain patients taking opiate analgesics.
Brian D. Sites, MD, will become the next editor-in-chief of Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine.
Prominent health insurers are putting up roadblocks to swift reimbursement for postoperative pain blocks, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira.
Since its inception in December 2014, CRH Anesthesia, a subsidiary of CRH Medical Corp., has expanded to provide anesthesia services in over 50 centers nationwide.
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The quality of outpatient care could suffer if patients take certain medications before surgery, according to Raleigh (N.C.) Orthopaedic Surgery Center.
A few factors could have practices coming up short when it comes to reimbursement for acute pain blocks, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira.
Healthcare organizations struggle to identify drug diversion because perpetrators often know how to hide the evidence, according to Tom Knight, chairman of the Healthcare Diversion Network.
Healthcare organizations need to go beyond education and awareness when it comes to combating drug diversion, according to Tom Knight, chairman of the Healthcare Diversion Network.
Anesthesiologist Christopher Davies, MD, and nurse anesthetist Neil Anderson, CRNA, practice at the Lakewalk Surgery Center in Duluth, Minn., where they strive to minimize the number of opioids their patients use, according to the Duluth News Tribune.