Ethicon Endo-Surgery, a Johnson & Johnson company, announced that the SEDASYS System, the first computer-assisted personalized sedation system, was granted a CE Mark for the European Union for routine colonoscopy and screening of the upper gastrointestinal tract and was granted…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to Baxter Healthcare Corp. on April 30 ordering the company to recall and destroy all of its Colleague Volumetric Infusion Pumps currently in use in the United States, resulting from a…
Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia found that colonoscopy preparation drugs administered the same day as the procedure are equally effective to those given the night before and the morning of the procedure, but result in less complaints of…
From 2003-2005, Noridian Administrative Services, which provides administrative services for the Medicare program, made $3 million in Medicare overpayments to hospitals for inpatient services and had failed to recover $1.9 million of that amount, according to an audit from the…
NovaMed, a Chicago-based operator of ASCs in partnership with physicians, announced it will partner with Bronson Healthcare Group, a non-profit healthcare system based in Kalamazoo, Mich, according to a NovaMed news release.
CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.Q: Injections, including nerve blocks and facet joints, require exhaustive documentation, especially if multiple levels are involved. What information should pain management…
Brien Fausone is the administrator of Michigan Endoscopy Center, a single-specialty GI ASC managed by Physicians Endoscopy.
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Colorado has enacted legislation that will reopen the grandfathering period for CRNAs without graduate degrees if an applicant has been "recognized as an advanced practice nurse in another state or jurisdiction and has practiced as an advanced practice nurse for…
The average surgery center performed 3,695 cases in 2008. The total number of surgery centers in the U.S. was 5,876. Here is the breakdown, by percentage, of surgery centers by their total annual case volume, according to SDI.