Randall Piper, senior director of non-acute contracting for group purchasing organization Amerinet, discusses five ways ambulatory surgery centers can maximize the benefits of their membership with a group purchasing organization.
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Citing operational issues for states, CMS has postponed its April 1 implementation date for Medicaid recovery audit contractors and has not yet identified a new date, according to a release from CMS.
Though the 2011 physician payment schedule includes some disadvantages for interventional pain management procedures, overall, interventional pain management is faring better than other specialties, according to a paper published in Pain Physician.
The Food and Drug Administration has finalized a regulation that provides a less-burdensome path to market for certain hardware and software products used with medical devices, according to an FDA news release.
The frequency of analgesic drug errors in hospitals is nearly three per 1,000 prescriptions, according to a news release by American Pain Society.
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Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is pushing for the state to have its own False Claims Act, which would let whistleblowers file claims against state contractors and allow Ohio to collect fraudulent funds and penalties, according to an article from…
Surgical Notes, a nationwide provider of medical transcription, coding, electronic medical records and other value-added IT services for ambulatory surgery centers, has added a coding module which allows facilities to code their operative reports in the company's SN Chart transcription…
The following is written by Marion K. Jenkins, PhD, FHIMSS, founder and CEO of QSE Technologies. Many headlines about HIPAA data breaches, and much of the attention around IT security in general, focus on external hackers. Most people envision a…
Surgical Notes, a nationwide provider of medical transcription, coding, electronic medical records and other value-added IT services for ambulatory surgery centers, has installed a new .NET web-based clinical documentation platform to Methodist Hospital for Surgery in Addison, Texas, and Methodist…