Raleigh General Hospital in Beckley, W.V., has opened its new $8 million ASC, according a report from The Register-Herald.
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The New York Times has published a few letters to the editor discussing the publication's editorial column "Who Should Provide Anesthesia Care?" which centers around the ongoing debate about whether a CRNA can deliver anesthetics without the supervision of anesthesiologist.
Here are 14 statistics on net revenue and gross charges for ASC orthopedic cases, based on a 2009 analysis of 174 licensed freestanding ASCs, according to the VMG Health Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.
If you think your clinic or surgery center is feeling productivity pressure now, what's coming won't bring much good news. There will be millions more patients, and relatively few more doctors. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human…
According to Joyce Deno Thomas, senior vice president of operations for Regent Surgical Health, ASCs are going to be increasingly held to the same standards as hospitals for quality control. She offers four ways to establish an effective quality control…
Jeannie Pezone, administrator at West Park Surgery Center in Pinellas Park, Fla., explains the process that helps the surgery center ensure patients are properly informed of their rights and responsibilities prior to the day of their procedure, according to standards…
"MedWatcher," a new iPhone application developed by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston (Mass.) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, allows users to track the latest drug safety updates and alerts from the Food and Drug Administration, according…
Hospitals and health systems are constantly refining their strategies based on changes in market dynamics. While these dynamics can include varying factors from changes in market competition to introduction of new medical technologies, perhaps nothing impacts the need for a…
Two West Virginia internists have been sentenced to one year and one day of prison time after admitting to their involvement in a pill mill operating out of Justice Medical Complex in Kermit, W.V., according to a Herald-Dispatch report.
Sleep Solutions, a diagnostic services provider based in Glen Burnie, Md., has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle false claims allegations, according to a report by The Capital.