In the Dec. 2010 addition of the Arkansas BlueCross BlueShield provider's news publication, BCBS provides an adopted version of the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist.
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Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Ill., has announced the former Ambulatory Surgery Center of Joliet is now officially a department of the hospital.
Jeff Peters, president of Surgical Directions in Chicago, says when he helped a financially struggling ambulatory surgery center apply the following four surgeon-friendly changes, volume increased by 17 percent. "Surgeons went from 'Do I really want to go there?' to…
Though recovery audit contractors have been focusing on hospitals as the big fish, they have been auditing practices, too, and have even been scrutinizing E/M codes, according to Frank Cohen, a process improvement analyst for practices, based in Clearwater, Fla.
Action Products, manufacturer of Action pads and positioners featuring Akton viscoelastic polymer, has received an Excellence in Surgical Products Award from Surgical Products magazine for its operating room replacement table pads, according to a news release from the company and…
Aesculap Implant Systems, a B. Braun company and provider of orthopedic instruments and implants, has announced the launching of a new website to educate patients on the causes and treatments for joint pain.
Here are 10 statistics about surgery center depreciation and amortization, according to data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.
Extending the term of exclusive access to clinical trial data will raise drug costs in the short term but also help approve 200 extra drugs and result in greater life expectancy in the long term, according to a study in…
Here are 10 statistics on the anesthesiologist workforce, according to various sources compiled in the Anesthesia Quality Institute's report Anesthesia in the U.S. 2009.