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Editor's note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in Anesthesia Business Consultants eAlerts, a free electronic newsletter. Sign-up to receive this…
Michael Storch, national client representative for Mnet Financial Collection Agency, suggests the following five inexpensive ways you can improve your ASC's collections.
Richard Wohns, MD, is one of the first physicians involved with the development of ambulatory spine practices. An accomplished spine surgeon, he is the founder of South Sounds Neurosurgery in Puyallup, Wash. and NeoSpine, a spine ASC development company part…
Families with Lynch syndrome should receive surveillance colonoscopies every 1-2 years to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer, according to a study published in the journal Gastroenterology.
Anesthesiologist Alan Berk, MD, is part of Dallas-based TX-AN Anesthesia Group, which services hospitals and surgery centers in Dallas and Plano, Texas.
Alabama's Medical West, an affiliate of UAB Health System, is considering purchasing the minority ownership stake held by physician investors in the Medical West Ambulatory Surgery Center in Bessemer, Ala., according to the Birmingham Business Journal.
The Senate failed to pass a six-month fee fix as part of its jobless benefits package, which needed 60 votes to pass but received only 56, according to a report by the Washington Post.
Enthermics Medical Systems has released the ivNow modular fluid warmer, the newest product in its line of WarmRight fluid warmers. ivNow warmers work by placing a one liter solution bag on a contoured warming surface, which detects the presence of…
A new law in Pennsylvania will require ASCs and hospitals to have a circulating nurse in the OR during procedures using general anesthesia or deep sedation.