West Penn Hospital's West Penn Bariatric Surgery Center in Pittsburgh was re-accredited by the American College of Surgeons' Bariatric Surgery Center Network. It is the only weight-loss surgery center in the Pittsburgh area to have this recognition, according to a…
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Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America has announced that it is the new management provider and a minority owner of The Brevard Specialty Surgery Center, an 11,472 square-foot, multi-specialty ASC located in Melbourne, Fla., according to an ASCOA news release.
Stamford, Conn.-based Purdue Pharma, a privately held pharmaceutical company, has introduced the Medical Education Resource Catalog Online, a Web-based resource that provides licensed healthcare professionals in the U.S. with access to free educational materials to help improve the care of…
Lane Regional Medical Center in Zachary, La., is opening its new $1.1 million Endoscopy Center on the third floor of its Lane Medical Plaza, according to a report in The Advocate.
Kathy Bryant, president of the ASC Association, discusses the impact of recently passed healthcare reform on ASCs.
An anesthesiology group has to constantly change to remain viable, says Howard Konowitz, MD, managing partner of Midwest Anesthesiologists HBRJ, a seven-physician group in Melrose Park, Ill. "If you can't reinvent the practice every nine months," he says, "you can't…
CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.1. Reporting CPT 29877 instead of 29879 due to lack of documentation without consideration of a physician queryOne of the biggest challenges…
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Advocacy Committee is applauding the removal of patient co-payments for screening colonoscopies in the health reform bill, according to a release from ASCAC.
Indianapolis-based TriMedx and Warsaw, Ind.-based Biomet lent both volunteers and medical equipment to assist the relief effort after the devastating earthquake in Haiti earlier this year, according to a report in Inside Indiana Business.
On March 23, Somnia Anesthesia Services hosted a Webinar titled, "Improving Operating Room and Anesthesia Efficiency in Your Hospital," which highlighted how anesthesia efficiency can affect OR efficiencies and a hospital's revenues.