Cristina Bentin, CCS-P CPC-H CMA, president of Coding Compliance Management, gave a presentation titled "Coding Inaccuracies That May Put an ASC or Practice at Risk With the OIG and RACs-Pain Management medical Necessity/Over-Reporting, Orthopedic Incorrect Reporting on Knees and Shoulders,…
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Jeffrey C. Clark, Partner, and David J. Pivnick, Associate, McGuireWoods LLP, gave a presentation titled "ASC Litigation, Non-Competition, Employee Litigation and Other Kinds of Litigation, Key Thoughts" at the 9th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago…
Interventional Pain Management: New Concepts to Reduce ER Visits, Hospitalizations and Re-Admissions
Scott Glaser, MD, DABIPP, an interventional pain management physician with Pain Specialists of Greater Chicago, gave a presentation titled "Interventional Pain Management—New Concepts to Reduce ER Visits, Hospitalizations and Re-Admissions" at the 9th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC…
The National Quality Forum and the Department of Health and Human Services have partnered together to provide a webinar series dedicated to patient safety, according to an NQF news release. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on the…
Cathy Rudisill, RN, senior vice president of operations at Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America, outlines physician recruitment and ASC staffing changes to immediately improve profits. She spoke in a 90-minute workshop with two other ASCOA executives at the 9th Annual…
Ann Geier, senior vice president of operations at Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America, provides several supply changes ambulatory surgery center can make to immediately improve profits. She spoke in a 90-minute workshop with two other ASCOA executives at the 9th…
Surgical supply distributors want to do more than just "sell you stuff," said Gerard Buckland, director of national accounts of the surgery center division for McKesson, one of the largest distributors of medical and surgical supplies in the country. "We…
A Utah study found that prescription drug-related harm, including death, primarily involved opioids, according to a report in the journal Pain Medicine.
A registered nurse in Kansas has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for helping to divert the opiods oxycodone and oxycontin, according to a report by the Topeka Capital-Journal.
Researchers have developed an add-on system for implantable devices, such as pacemakers, that would prevent unauthorized signals from instructing the implant to deliver lethal doses of medication or electricity, according to a report by Physorg.