Larry Teuber, MD, currently serves as president of Medical Facilities Corporation, a company that owns 51 percent interest in four specialty surgical hospitals in South Dakota and Oklahoma and two ASCs in California. According to the company's website, MFC's philosophy…
The Latest
As ASCs look for ways to enhance their profits, the addition of GI is often considered. GI procedures such as colonoscopy and EGD are attractive procedures to add to an existing ASC. The centers often see the addition of GI…
The following reader question came in response to the column "Critical Guidance for Complying With Anesthesia Infection Control Rules," which features insight from Clifford Gevirtz, MD, an anesthesiologist with Somnia Anesthesia Services who practices throughout New York and Long Island,…
Kathie Stewart, administrator of Cascade Spine Center in Tualatin, Ore., shares how the spine center resolved the challenge of providing verbal explanations of patients' conditions for coverage.
Kathie Stewart, administrator of Cascade Spine Center in Tualatin, Ore., discusses three ways the spine center recruits spine specialists.
Lakeland Surgical and Diagnostic Center, with two locations in Florida, has implemented a patient satisfaction survey on its website for patients who desire an online method of communication.
Steve Corl, administrator at Mackinaw Surgery Center in Saginaw, Mich., discusses how the center tackles pricing negotiations with supply vendors.
A healthcare economist is proposing a hybrid payment model for Medicare, allowing managed care or fee-for-service payments, depending on the market, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.
Here are five significant anesthesia-related stories making headlines in the past eight months. 1. Debate over whether CRNAs providing anesthesia services unsupervised put patients at risk. A study published in the August issue of Health Affairs and funded by the…
The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority has released advisory guidelines for healthcare executives dealing with healthcare-associated infections to help them present a business case for their infection prevention and control programs.