The president and vice president of the Colorado Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (CASCA) have written a column appearing in the Colorado Healthcare News which focuses how the more than 110 ASCs in the state help to rein in rising healthcare…
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Partners Medical Consulting, a healthcare consulting company based in Sioux Falls, S.D., has the hiring of Kyle Goldammer as CEO, Heidi Babb as vice president of revenue cycle management and Cher Anderson, RN, as vice president of clinical services.
The Department of Health & Human Services has submitted a proposed final rule for the accounting of disclosures of electronic health records, according to an update by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
CPT copyright 2010 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. Rosalind Richmond, chief coding and compliance officer of GENASCIS, which provides revenue cycle services and supporting technologies for surgery centers,…
Hospitals and health systems nationwide continue to lay out plans for and develop new surgery centers. Here are 10 reports on new hospital and health system surgery center projects.
Alex Cahana, MD, director of the University of Washington's Division of Pain Medicine, is working with the U.S. Army to formulate a pain management approach that would address a key issue brought to light by an Army report — up…
Thirteen states have made a joint request to the federal government on how to acquire sodium thiopental, an anesthetic that is used as part of a lethal execution drug and also for brief surgical procedures, according to a CNN news…
Under the authorization of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 and the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health providers an updated list of personal protective devices that have…
Lance E. Faulkner from Tecumseh, Okla., has been indicted by a federal grand jury for healthcare fraud in connection with the sales of prosthetic limbs and components, according to a Department of Justice news release. Mr. Faulkner owned and operated…
Tait Shanafelt, MD, a hematologist at the Mayo Clinic, reflects on an increasing body of literature that suggests physicians and other healthcare professionals are "burning out" due to a wide variety of reasons, including increasing pressures to meet productivity requirements…