In 10 months, Kate Rock, administrator of Doylestown Surgery Center in Warrington, Pa., reduced expenses in her ambulatory surgery center by $400,000 over the previous calendar year, ending 2010 with the most positive bottom line for the ASC in many…
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The Joint Commission has released a new monograph aimed at increasing tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccination of adults and adolescents.
GENASCIS, a provider of billing, revenue cycle management services and supporting technologies for ambulatory surgery centers, recently presented a free webinar titled, "Keys to Transforming Surgery Centers Into a Profitable Business."
The last several years have been a struggle for ambulatory surgery centers, which are not only facing declining reimbursements for patient care but are also faced with many patient safety challenges, such as the revised 2009 CMS conditions for coverage…
Ambulatory surgery centers can utilize patient satisfaction surveys as a springboard for process improvement. As such, patient satisfactions surveys should not be created or distributed haphazardly but rather strategically crafted in a cost-effective way. Parth Zaveri, administrator at Endoscopy Center…
The California Department of Industrial Relations published a guideline for reducing bloodborne pathogens exposure, which includes a six-step process to control, isolate or remove the bloodborne pathogens hazard from the workplace.
A trained eight-year-old Labrador retriever named Marine was able to detect colorectal cancer accurately at least 95 percent of the time, according to a study published in Gut.
Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, and Jill Marsteller, PhD, MPP, are calling on physicians to be more involved and lead quality improvement efforts in their respective healthcare settings, according to an article they authored in the Journal of the American Medical…
Dayton, Ohio-based CareSource, which provides managed care benefits to Medicaid beneficiaries in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, has agreed to pay $26 million to resolve allegations that it filed false Medicaid claims, according to a news release by the Department of…
Great Falls (Mont.) Clinic Surgery Center has achieved accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, according to a report from the Great Falls Tribune.