Vivek Agrawal, MD — Dr. Agrawal is director of The Shoulder Center in Zionsville, Ind., which specializes in providing advanced care for shoulder problems. As a college student, he injured his shoulder playing competitive tennis, and the lack of available,…
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Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) introduced a new bill that aims to improve patient care and save billions of dollars each year in health care costs by ensuring that Medicare patients receive effective follow-up care after they leave a hospital, according…
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This article briefly highlights five ASC administrators to know. Visit www.BeckersASC.com and read Becker's ASC Review to see more administrators to know. To nominate an ASC administrator to know, e-mail Scott Becker at sbecker@mcguirewoods.com.
Arecent report from the Institute of Medicine recommends several actions to improve disclosure of financial ties between the medical community and industry, limit company payments and gifts and remove industry influence from medical education and the development of practice guidelines,…
Note: The following column appeared in EndoEconomics, a journal published by Physicians Endoscopy. Have you ever wondered if your ASC is efficiently billing and collecting? Are you collecting every dollar that is due? Take the time to review all the…
This article was originally published in the e-newsletter <i>Z-Talks</i> from Ziegler Healthcare.
A 12,000 square-foot Sutter Gould Medical Foundation-owned surgery center recently opened in Stockton, Calif., according to a report by The Record.
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The Department of Health and Human Services' budget for fiscal year 2010 will be $879 billion, which includes a health care reserve fund of $635 billion over 10 years to finance health reform that brings down costs, improves quality and…