The following is an ordering of states based on the percentage of Medicare hospital admissions per 100,000 beneficiaries for ambulatory care sensitive conditions, starting with the least number of admissions.
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The following are 14 infection control findings from the past month, beginning with the most recent.
The California Public Employees Retirement System began a public reference pricing initiative for total knee and hip replacement surgery in January 2010 and is now expanding the reference pricing to ambulatory surgery, according to a report in the Harvard Business…
Here are seven news updates for ambulatory surgery center leaders.
A new study published in Spine examines the microbiology of surgical site infection in spine surgery.
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Early Thursday morning, President Obama signed a law that ended the 16-day government shutdown and temporarily raised the country's debt ceiling — but what are the effects of the shutdown, especially for the healthcare sector?
CMS said Medicare will not reimburse percutaneous image-guided lumbar decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis patients, according to a new national coverage determination.
Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced plans to hold a hearing Oct. 24 concerning the healthcare reform law's "troubled rollout," according to a news release.
A nurse who survived a severe hospital acquired infection and the physician who created healthcare's well-known "My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene" program discuss the stubborn nature of handwashing compliance and tips for hospitals to improve it.
Amerinet Choice, a subsidiary of Amerinet, has reached an agreement with diversity supplier Advanced Ultrasound Solutions.