The physician shortage is a systemic challenge with far-reaching implications for both patients and health system performance. Organizations that still manage physician capacity reactively absorb compounding costs: coverage scrambles, credentialing delays, lost procedural revenue and the slow erosion of physician…
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Corporate practice of medicine laws exist in most states to keep corporations and other non-physician entities from directing how doctors treat patients. But at a private equity investment roundtable hosted by George Washington University Law School’s Health Law and Policy…
Michael Shuler, MD, a hand and upper-extremity surgeon at Athens (Ga.) Orthopedic Clinic can perform an endoscopic carpal tunnel release in as little as five minutes. The incision is about 1 centimeter long. Patients typically wear a soft dressing for…
After exhausting the standard playbook of renegotiating contracts and tightening inventory, the next layer of ASC savings may be hiding in plain sight. Maximizing workflow efficiencies and available labor are two areas where leaders can look to once the easy…
Hospitals are generating more revenue, but a continued migration toward outpatient care and rising operating costs are accelerating one of healthcare’s biggest strategic shifts: investment in ambulatory surgery centers. Kaufman Hall’s latest “National Hospital Flash Report” found outpatient revenue per…
The American College of Cardiology, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons have called for updates as CMS considers changes to its transcatheter aortic valve replacement coverage policy, according to a July 15 news…
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed House Bill 2372 into law, which includes a ban on health insurers from placing time limits on reimbursement for anesthesia coverage during surgery, according to a July 13 news release from the governor’s office. Here…
Picture a cardiovascular patient moving from the ED to inpatient to ambulatory to home without a single dropped handoff — follow-up intact, the care team aligned, nothing left to chance in the gaps. For most health systems, that’s not yet…
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From student loan repayment support to federal legislation that could support the anesthesia workforce, here are five pieces of good news in the anesthesia space in the last several weeks: 1. A bill has been introduced in the House of…
ASCs that wait on downside risk aren’t just falling behind, according to Dan Tasset — they’re pricing themselves out of the healthcare delivery system entirely. Mr. Tasset returned this month as CEO of Leawood, Kan.-based NueHealth, the ASC company he…
