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The president of Health Industry Group Purchasing Association (HIGPA), a trade association that represents 15 group purchasing organizations, has issued a statement announcing HIGPA's support for President Obama's State of the Union focus on healthcare cost containment.
While ambulatory surgery centers are typically disadvantaged in areas of reimbursement, they have several natural advantages that give them a leg up on busy, high-cost hospitals. Here are four ways to recognize and take advantage of these built-in benefits.
Some physicians have been operating small surgery centers as a convenience for their practices, but now they would like to upgrade them into money-making ventures. Here Bill Heath, chief development officer, Practice Partners in Healthcare, in Birmingham, Ala., provides six…
Jeff Leland is CEO of Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners. Q: We are an ASC looking to add spine surgery. What spine procedures are typically performed in an ambulatory surgery center? Jeff Leland: Generally speaking, discectomies, decompressions, laminotomies,…
Eighty-three percent of surveyed patients want a physician to have primary responsibility for their healthcare, according to an AMA study.
Physicians and pharmacists are criticizing a decision by Hospira, the sole maker of the anesthetic thiopental sodium, to permanently halt the anesthetic's production, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Pain perception to minor physical stimuli prior to surgery could be related to subsequent pain ratings after surgery, according to a literature review published in the Feb. 2011 issue of Anesthesiology.
Dress in Blue Day, which aims to promote awareness about colon cancer and encourage people to get their colon checked, will be held this year on March 4, according to a Colon Cancer Alliance release.