DATE: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 LENGTH: 90 minutes CREDITS: 1.5 CEUs ASC coding expert Stephanie Ellis of Ellis Medical Consulting will discuss orthopedic coding challenges in ASCs, and will help you to capture the reimbursement your center earns and deserves.…
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Prexus Health has successfully completed contract negotiations with Humana of Ohio.
Venture capital firms are increasingly backing bariatric ASCs, and the two makers of surgical devices for gastric banding procedures are engaged in "fierce competition," a formula that's turning a "once-controversial weight-loss procedure into the next big thing in elective surgery,"…
CMS has publicly released hospital volume and payment data along with the results of the first national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patients' perspectives of hospital care. The details of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, a…
Surgical Notes has launched VMR Express, a new medical records software program that creates a more efficient automated process for medical forms generation and records management, while digitizing the process of document storage and retrieval. The product eliminates hard cost…
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Congratulations to Marshall Erdman & Associates on being named the nation’s top design-build company by Modern Healthcare’s 2008 Construction & Design Survey.
4 key considerations for supply chain optimization in the ASC As more surgeries transition to the outpatient setting, ASCs are under increased pressure to have the necessary supplies and support available to nurses and surgeons to meet increasing demands. The…
Healthcare providers can begin signing up today for a new free service that will begin sending patient safety alerts, including medication and device recalls, via e-mail in June.
Six months after the federal government settled allegations of kickback payments with five device manufacturers, its long-running investigation into the orthopedics industry is now focusing on physicians, the New York Times reported March 24.
CIT Group, the New York consumer- and commercial-finance company, is pursuing funding from an overseas bank to support its lending business, according to the March 24 Wall Street Journal.