The final two weeks in April (18-29), when members of Congress return home to focus their attention on constituent services, present a great opportunity to invite Congress members to tour ambulatory surgery centers, according to the ASC Association.
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On March 11, Reps. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan.), Henry Cueller (D-Texas) and Todd Akin (R-Mo.) introduced the "Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act" legislation that would increase rural patients' access to high quality anesthesia services provided by an anesthesiologist, according to…
Preoperative frailty in older surgical patients is associated with early postoperative delirium, according to a study published in the March 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
Wolters Kluwer Health has announced Desert Sun Gastroenterology in Tucson, Ariz., has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding.
Mark Samples, president of Prime Healthcare Properties in Huntsville, Ala., lists five frequently asked questions about ambulatory surgery center development and provides the answers.
Anesthesiologist error is to blame for an increasing number of wrong-site procedures, according to a report by General Surgery News.
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association has issued a statement applauding the recognition given to ASCs from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) in its March 2011 Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy.
Researchers found using a computer-based electronic order set helped facilitate timely discontinuation of postoperative antibacterials, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Here are the 19 most frequently provided ambulatory surgery center services in 2009, along with their percent of total volume, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's (MedPAC) March 2011 Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy.
Here are 12 statistics about ambulatory surgery centers and the ASC industry from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's (MedPAC) March 2011 Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy.