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…
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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,…
This article was originally published in the e-newsletter <i>Z-Talks</i> from Ziegler Healthcare.
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A 12,000 square-foot Sutter Gould Medical Foundation-owned surgery center recently opened in Stockton, Calif., according to a report by The Record.
The Department of Health and Human Services' budget for fiscal year 2010 will be $879 billion, which includes a health care reserve fund of $635 billion over 10 years to finance health reform that brings down costs, improves quality and…
The current economic situation and other factors have limited the access ASCs and physician groups have had to loans. The process has also become longer and more costly. Here, Bart Walker, JD, of McGuireWoods in Charlotte, N.C., discusses six legal…
Community General Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., has begun construction on a $7.6 million Center for Orthopedics, which will occupy the hospital's sixth floor, according to a Community General news release.
GE announced it is healthymagination initiative, in which the company will spend $3 billion over the next six years on healthcare innovation that will help deliver better care to more people at lower cost, according to a GE news release.