The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has created two videos to promote safe injection practices through its One & Only Campaign in conjunction with the Safe Injection Practices Coalition.
The Latest
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has created two videos to promote safe injection practices through its One & Only Campaign in conjunction with the Safe Injection Practices Coalition.
1. The Payments to Ambulatory Surgery Centers report by the Workers Compensation Research Institute examines the variation in ASC fee schedules and payment by state. The sense from reading the report is that the authors of the report perceive that…
Colonoscopy has undeniably played a central role in screening and the reduction of colorectal cancer mortality. Demand for the procedure will likely remain high. As in the age-old tale of supply and demand, the device industry has responded with numerous…
Managed care contract negotiations can seem like an uphill battle, a tale as old as time — or that the very least as old as the ambulatory surgery center industry. Adriaan Epps, abeo vice president of practice management, deconstructs the…
The Center for Spine Interventions plans to open a physician-owned, single-specialty ambulatory surgery center in Douglasville, Ga., according to a Broadway World report.
Digestive diseases represent a significant financial and health burden. Here are 27 statistics on the number of deaths, ambulatory care visits and hospital discharges associated with GI diseases in 2004, according to the Burden of Digestive Diseases in the United…
L. Michael Brunt, MD, has been elected the new president of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons.
PwC's Health Research Institute has released its annual medical cost trend report for 2015, which is based on interviews with industry executives, health policy experts and health plan actuaries, whose companies cover a total of 93 million members.
Newly insured individuals who purchased health insurance plans on the exchanges are 12 percent less likely to report being in good health than those in the general population, according to a recent Gallup poll.