The New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgical Centers has announced it will hold an all day, special education event for one room surgical centers in New Jersey.
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Within its proposed 2019 ASC and HOPD payment update, CMS also addressed the ASC Quality Reporting Program. The proposed updates would remove eight measures from the required reporting list for payment determination over the next few years, according to an…
For the eighth straight year, data breaches in healthcare had the highest cost compared to other industries, according to a new report from IBM and the Ponemon Institute, the National Law Review reported.
Laval, Canada-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals, a manfucterer of dermatology, gastrointestinal disorders, eye health and branded generics changed its name to Bausch Health Companies.
Panelists at the American Gastroenterological Association Tech Summit discussed the importance of preventing infections from duodenoscopes and endoscopes, according to Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News.
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Medscape outlined a JAMA study that describes how support staff can either defend against malpractice risks or increase them.
The results of a quality improvement project at Palo Alto, Calif-based Stanford Bariatric, an accredited weight loss surgery center, showed accreditation standard improved quality of care while the center continued to build surgical volume through a multiyear quality improvement project…
About 93 percent of residents said their specialty choice is influenced by potential earnings, according to Medscape's 2018 Residents Salary & Debt Report.
The National Bureau of Economic Research posted a new report from researchers at Durham, N.C.-based Duke University and Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology detailing the cost of “defensive medicine,” or the practice of administering extra medical tests to avoid potential…
ASCs in the Pacific region reap the highest median net revenue per general surgery case, according to VMG Health's 2018 Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study.