John Ansorge is CFO of Somnia Anesthesia Services. Mr. Ansorge joined Somnia in 2010. He has more than 20 years experience in hospital finance, most recently holding the position of interim CFO for Stamford (Conn.) Health System, a 305-bed teaching…
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Olympus, an imaging technology company, recently attended the U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology annual meeting in San Antonio to show its microscopes and two new virtual slide systems, according to a company news release.
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Seventeen percent of hospitals offered computed tomographic colonography in 2008 compared to 13 percent in 2005, according to a study published in Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Access to care does not differ based on location, with over 80 percent of surveyed individuals reporting an accessible physician regardless of local population, according to a Health Affairs survey reported by American Medical News.
In a New York Times article, Emery Neal Brown, MD, a professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School and a practicing physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, answered questions about how anesthesia works.
The number of Oklahoma physicians is rising, bucking the physician shortage expected in many states, according to an Oklahoman report.
CMS has revised its brochure, "The Medicare Appeals Process: Five Levels to Protect Providers, Physicians and Other Suppliers," according to an AAPC release.
Proposed cuts to Texas Medicaid funding could hurt healthcare in rural areas, says Republican Rep. John Zerwas, an anesthesiologist from suburban Houston, according to a Houston Chronicle report.
Clinical Trial Tests Gastric Bypass Surgery for Type 2 Diabetes in Overweight, Mildly Obese Patients
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is conducting the first clinical trial to test surgery for Type 2 Diabetes in overweight or mildly obese patients, according to a news release.