Christian Ellison is senior vice president of corporate development at Health Inventures, which has brokered and managed physician and hospital joint ventures in ASCs and surgical hospitals for more than 15 years. Mr. Ellison has been instrumental in building Health…
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Patients who undergoing surgery for spinal stenosis face a higher risk of complication if the surgeon performs less than four such procedures each year, according to a study published in Neurosurgery.
Public and positive reinforcement may improve physicians' compliance with medication reconciliation, according to a study published in the American Journal of Medical Quality.
Hospitals and physicians are increasingly looking to partner in the face of healthcare reform, reimbursement reductions and market saturation. Here Chuck Peck, MD, CEO of Health Inventures, discusses four options for hospital/physician partnership.
A/R management is crucial to receiving payment in a timely manner, says Ken Bulow, vice president of ASC services for GENASCIS, a division of abeo. Here he discusses five mistakes surgery centers make in managing their A/R — and how…
The deadline for all HIPAA-covered entities to complete their upgrade to Version 5010 electronic standards ends June 30, and CMS reminded ASCs, hospitals and other providers to follow three tips to avoid unnecessary claims rejections.
The Food and Drug Administration this week assigned oral opioid NKTR-181 to a fast-track development program for the treatment of moderate to severe chronic pain.
Commissioners in Flagler County in Florida this week voted unanimously to extend a temporary moratorium on new pain management clinics for an additional six months, according to a News-Journal report.
Digital medicine can have an alienating effect on the physician-patient relationship if relied on too heavily by physicians, according to an Atlantic editorial by John Henning Schumann, MD, who directs the internal medicine residency at the University of Oklahoma's School…
An American Medical News report discussed strategies for developing effective patient scheduling reminders. "Unfortunately, there's no simple answer, because some strategies that will work in an older population will not work in a younger one," said John Brewer, president of…