Annual volume: 1,500 procedures Specialties: ENT, orthopedics, GI, pain management and podiatry
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Members of Blue Cross/Blue Shield (BCBS) will be responsible for 5 percent more of their out-of-network, elective surgery costs in 2009 than they were responsible for in 2008, according to a benefit plan letter sent by BC/BS to its members.
Annual volume: 8,000 Specialties: Pain management, orthopedics, neurology
Annual volume: 1,200 procedures Specialties: Orthopedics and pain management
Dick Hanley, president and CEO of Broomfield, Col.-based Health Inventures, which specializes in developing and managing ASCs and imaging centers, often brokering partnerships between hospitals and physicians, offers the following six predictions and assessments relating to physician/hospital ASC joint venture…
Physicians Endoscopy (PE), a developer and manager of endoscopic ambulatory surgery centers in partnership with practicing GI physicians and hospitals, and Saint Vincent Health System have announced the opening of Saint Vincent Endoscopy Center in Erie, Pa.
Eisai Corp. has announced that the FDA has approved its Lusedra (fospropofol disodium) Injection, an intravenous sedative-hypnotic agent for monitored anesthesia care sedation.
Conejo Surgery Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif., specializing in orthopedics and pain management, is now open, according to Thousand Oaks Acorn.
Here are is one of the challenges affecting ambulatory anesthesia, and advice from experts for handling it effectively. The full story, "5 Current Challenges in Ambulatory Anesthesia," appears in the Jan. issue of Becker's ASC Review.
New York Gov. David Paterson has proposed a 2009-2010 executive budget that includes $3.5 billion in healthcare spending cuts and taxes.