A new practice brief in the May issue of the Journal of American Health Information Management Association notes that the focus of most CDI programs is to improve the quality of clinical documentation regardless of its impact on revenue, while…
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The American Health Information Management Association announced it has been granted accreditation for its Certified Coding Associate program through April 2015 from the National Commission for Certifying Agencies, the accreditation body of the Institute for Credentialing Excellence, according to an…
Christopher Joyce, MD, and Brian Lahmann, MD, of Joliet, Ill., performed their 1,000th gastric band surgery this month at Silver Cross Hospital, placing them among the top 1 percent of surgeons performing this procedure, according to a report in The…
A Democrat opposing health reform won the special election for the late Democratic Rep. John Murtha's seat in a conservative district in Pennsylvania, according to a report from the Washington Post.
Freeman Surgical Center, an ASC developed in Joplin, Mo., by Freeman Health System, Nueterra Healthcare and local physicians, will open June 1, according to The Joplin Globe.
Kosair Children's Medical Center – Brownsboro, a pediatric outpatient center in Louisville, Ky., will open on May 26, according to parent company not-for-profit Norton Healthcare.
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…
Nueterra Healthcare announced that Mavicor, a leading healthcare information technology management company, will host a new electronic medical record platform for Nueterra surgery centers, according to a Nueterra news release.
Here are the median gross charges and net revenue per general surgery case by a surgery center's number of ORs, according to VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.
Researchers based out of The Netherlands found that in morbidly obese patients (BMI 38–60 kg m-2), lower doses of propofol are not as effective for anesthesia in patients undergoing bariatric surgery, according to a study published in the European Journal…