Here are 10 recent news stories impacting the anesthesia community.
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Lou Lazatin, president and CEO of St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., recently led her hospital in establishing the Saint John's Ambulatory Surgery Center, a 12,000-square-foot, multi-specialty ASC. Here she discusses six reasons hospitals should consider developing a…
Methodist Dallas Medical Center must submit an action plan for patient safety deficiencies by Sept. 6 or risk revocation of its Medicare status, according to a Dallas Business Journal report. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on Methodist…
Studies about medications published in the most influential medical journals are frequently designed in a way that yields misleading or confusing results, according to a UCLA Health release.
Patients at hospitals in Tennessee are safer on several key measures today than they were three years ago, due in part to the work by the Tennessee Center for Patient Safety, according to a news release.
Mike Roizen, MD, chair of the SmartTots executive board, recently traveled to India to present on pediatric anesthesia neurotoxicity, according to a MarketWatch report.
On Thursday, the Obama administration will begin investigating proposed increases of health insurance premiums that exceed 9 percent, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
One hundred physicians from the roughly 120-member Missouri Medical Affiliates opted to sign individual contracts with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield before the temporary, three-month contract between the two parties expired, according to a Columbia Tribune report.
The Obama administration said last week that states that have not adopted health insurance exchanges may get a second chance to implement them before the government steps in, according to a NewsOK report.
Luann Jenkins, CPC, CPMA, CEMC, CFPC, recently addressed a Medicare denial that occurs when CMS has been involved in the settlement of a Workers' Compensation case, according to an AAPC release.