Several New Jersey hospitals have partnered with a group of certified harp therapists to help ease patient anxiety and aid the healing process, according to a My Central Jersey report.
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Building a surgery center is arguably more difficult than it was 10 years ago. With saturated markets, increased attention from hospital competitors and strict certificate of need laws in many states, surgeon groups often struggle to gain approval for their…
Adam Frederic Dorin, MD, MBA, medical director and anesthesiologist of SHARP Grossmont Plaza Surgery Center and anesthesiologist at the Grossmont Hospital, Surgery Center and Women's Center in La Mesa, Calif., discusses trends impacting anesthesiology over the next year.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has worked with X12, the body charged with developing and maintaining standards used for electronic claims standards, and agreed that anesthesia codes that include the phrase “not otherwise specified” do not meet the definition of…
Dean Dornic, MD, LASIK surgeon in Raleigh, N.C., and medical director of the Laser Eye Center of Carolina in Cary, will present at the World Ophthalmology Congress in Abu Dhabi, UAE, in Feb. 2012, according to a release.
An increase in steroid injections to relieve back and neck pain is prompting a jump in severe complications associated with epidurals, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Coventry Health Care of Nebraska will be the new health plan administrator for a state program that provides health insurance for residents who can’t get affordable coverage because of medical problems, according to a report by The Republic.
Despite a lack of action by the Illinois General Assembly to move along a bill to create a health insurance exchange, supporters of the exchanges still hope to start implementation in early 2012, according to a Daily Republican report.
The Lake Pend Oreille School District’s new contract for healthcare through the North Idaho Health Network does not cover services from the Pend Oreille Surgery Center in Ponderay, according to a River Journal report.
Gainesville Eye Associates ophthalmologists Jack Chapman Jr., MD, and Clayton Blehm, MD, were recently certified to perform the bladeless cataract surgery, and the first one was performed at the practice yesterday, according to an AccessNorthGA.com report.