Here are 12 statistics on pain management case revenue and gross charges by region from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011. The survey included surgery centers from the West, Southwest, Midwest, Southeast and Northeast.
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An ambulatory surgery center included as part of the new Doctors Hospital in Grand Forks, N.D., is now open, according to a Grand Forks Herald report.
Bloomington, Minn.-based health insurer HealthPartners is changing the way it covers patients considering spine surgery, in an effort to decrease costs and increase efficacy, according to a Star Tribune report.
European researchers found frequent aspirin use increases risk of early age-related macular degeneration and more frequent aspirin use further increases risk, according to findings published in Ophthalmology.
Kenneth Frazier, the CEO of drug manufacturer Merck, says the company will seek approval for a drug that reverses anesthesia after surgery in 2012, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Alfredo Dubra, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology and biophysics, and the Medical College of Wisconsin received a $250,000, four-year grant from Research to Prevent Blindness to study diseases impacting the retina and the optic nerve, according to a university news…
St. Jude Medical plans to more than double its Plymouth, Minn. location with a 3-floor, 275,000 square foot addition, according to a news release.
Intuitive Surgical, a global leader in minimally invasive robotic-assisted surgery, received FDA clearance to market its EndoWrist One Vessel Sealer instrument for use with the da Vinci Surgical System, according to a news release.
Botox affects other muscles other than the ones it's injected into, according to an investigation published in the Jan. 2011 issue of Anesthesia and Analgesia.
Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis assigned pharmacists to check patients' discharge orders before they were released from the hospital and reduced its medication error rate from 92 percent to nearly zero, according to a Star Tribune report.