Many neurosurgeons I know are interested in handling spine surgeries at outpatient facilities, but have questions about managing risk as they make the transition from inpatient. That's just as it should be. In developing ASCs with Blue Chip Surgical Center…
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Somnia Anesthesia, a leading provider of anesthesia services, announced that it has named Alyssa Morrison as its new director of client development for the Mid-Atlantic region, according to a Somnia news release.
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Vivek Agrawal, MD — Dr. Agrawal is director of The Shoulder Center in Zionsville, Ind., which specializes in providing advanced care for shoulder problems. As a college student, he injured his shoulder playing competitive tennis, and the lack of available,…
Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) introduced a new bill that aims to improve patient care and save billions of dollars each year in health care costs by ensuring that Medicare patients receive effective follow-up care after they leave a hospital, according…
Ajay Mangal, MD, MBA, a board-certified otolaryngologist and president and CEO of Cincinnati-based Prexus Health, a physician-owned developer and manager of ASCs, imaging centers and surgical hospitals, has found that offering ENT in his company's facilities is a worthwhile venture.…
This article briefly highlights five ASC administrators to know. Visit www.BeckersASC.com and read Becker's ASC Review to see more administrators to know. To nominate an ASC administrator to know, e-mail Scott Becker at sbecker@mcguirewoods.com.
Arecent report from the Institute of Medicine recommends several actions to improve disclosure of financial ties between the medical community and industry, limit company payments and gifts and remove industry influence from medical education and the development of practice guidelines,…
Note: The following column appeared in EndoEconomics, a journal published by Physicians Endoscopy. Have you ever wondered if your ASC is efficiently billing and collecting? Are you collecting every dollar that is due? Take the time to review all the…