The following article is written by Mary Sturm, RN, MBA, senior VP of clinical operations, and Daren Smith, RN, director of clinical services, for Surgical Management Professionals.
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SourceMedical, a provider of clinical and management ambulatory surgery center software solutions, has announced that ASC management company APAC Partners has selected the company's Vision Enterprise and Vision Electronic Health Record products for its client base of ASCs and physician…
Surgical Care Affiliates has announced it has entered into a joint market development agreement with West Orange, N.J.-based Saint Barnabas Health Care System (SBHCS), New Jersey's largest integrated health care delivery system.
Medicare Advantage plans have very high payment error rates, making them ripe for the proposed RAC program that will patrol Medicare Parts C and D, according to a report by John Paul Spencer in the RAConteur.
Karen C. Howey, CASC, administrator of Matrix Surgery Center in Saginaw, Mich., discusses 10 steps that helped her facility expand from a single-specialty pain center to a multi-specialty ASC.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, chastised CMS for postponing implementation of a recovery audit contractor program from Medicaid, according to a report by the Hill.
On March 21, 2010, the House of Representatives passed President Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare reform bill, signaling the beginning of a watermark decade for the healthcare industry. In the wake of the bill's passage, hospitals and health systems are struggling…
Here are 6 statistics on physician risk factors in ambulatory surgery centers, according to VMG Health's ValueDriver ASC Survey 2011. In compiling the survey, VMG spoke with leaders of the 20 of the largest ASC management and operating companies in…
The 2010 Leapfrog Hospital Survey results indicate steady improvement in some areas, such as the number of hospitals adopting never-events policies and implementing computerized physician order entry to help prevent medication errors, according to a news release.
Mark Warner, MD, professor of anesthesiology at Mayo Medical and president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, discussed the evolution of anesthesia safety in a Minnesota Medicine report.