The Drug Enforcement Administration released its interim final rule for regulations to provide practitioners with the option of electronically writing prescriptions for controlled substances, which included number of physician-friendly suggestions submitted by the American Gastroenterological Association, according to an AGA…
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Ochsner Health System has completed its purchase of Slidell, La.'s NorthShore Regional Medical Center and its ASC, according to a report in New Orleans CityBusiness.
Joseph Stapleton, MD, is an anesthesiologist, pain physician and a partner at East Portland Surgical Center in Happy Valley, OR.
Bonnie Brady, RN, the administrator of Specialty Surgical Center in Sparta, N.J., shares five tips for reducing costs at an ASC. Ms. Brady has been with Specialty Surgical Center, a multispecialty, two-OR ASC, since May 2008. Since she arrived, the…
Jeff Blankinship is president & CEO of Surgical Notes, a nationwide provider of medical transcription, coding, electronic medical records and other value-added IT services for ASCs.
CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.Differences in coding for screening or diagnostic colonoscopies have been a pressing issue for more than a decade and the new health…
CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.Differences in coding for screening or diagnostic colonoscopies have been a pressing issue for more than a decade and the new health…
A study for the Commonwealth Fund concludes high-performing hospital systems tend to maintain a culture of excellence organized around a few specific best practices, according to a release by the Commonwealth Fund.
Ms. Wallace is the executive director and CEO of the Menomonee Falls (Wis.) Ambulatory Surgery Center, a multispecialty center just northwest of Milwaukee. She shares some suggestions for reducing costs and improving efficiency, recruiting physicians and increasing profits.
In the wake of healthcare reform's passage, two major deals involving the possible acquisition of large non-profit hospital systems by for-profit firms have been announced: Vanguard Health Systems' acquisition of eight-hospital Detroit Medical Center and private equity firm Cerberus Capital's…