Same-Day Surgery – February 1, 2015
February 1, 2015
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Keep Vendors and Their Surprises Out of Your ORs and Your Contracts
Ambulatory surgery programs often find they have various unexpected expenses due to vendor activities. Make sure your hospital knows what it's buying.
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Make money by reducing expenses and increasing your facility’s efficiency
Like you, I have bills to pay and expenses to cover in my business and personal life. It is not something I particularly enjoy, but by meeting my obligations, I can keep a roof over my head.
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How your facility can save with reprocessing of devices labeled for single use
Have you wanted to start a reprocessing program for devices labeled for single use but faced a barrage of concerns from your physicians and clinical staff? Many of these objections are based on fiction, according to Amy J. Gagliardi, vice president of the supply chain at Westchester, IL-based Regent Surgical Health, which develops and manages surgery center partnerships. Gagliardi spoke on reprocessing at the most recent Ambulatory Surgery Center Association annual meeting.
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Patient has high out-of-pocket costs? Find out earlier! Move financial talk to front end
More patients have access to insurance coverage today, but they also have higher out-of-pocket responsibility.
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Tools allow for accurate estimates: Patients get the ‘whole story’
Staff at NorthBay Healthcare in Fairfield, CA, use a newly implemented patient payment estimator to tell patients what they’ll owe before they schedule an elective surgery.
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Sponges retained in patients during surgery are reduced by 93% in study
The results of a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgery (JACS) show an adjunct technology for the detection and prevention of retained surgical sponges (RSS) reduced the incidence of RSS by 93%. RSS are expensive in terms of X-rays, OR time, reduced reimbursement for hospitals, and potential liability.
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Savings on infection control and Medicare resources
As part of this issue’s special focus on cost savings, AHC Media, publisher of Same-Day Surgery and dozens of other educational products, is offering the following discounts to SDS readers:
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Malpractice caused Joan Rivers’ death, critics say
The clinic and surgeons caring for comedian Joan Rivers at the time of her death made several errors that could have contributed to her death, according to a federal report.
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Guideline developed for prevention and treatment of postoperative delirium in older patients
A new guideline is available to help healthcare providers prevent and treat one of the most common postop complications in older patients: delirium. The Clinical Practice Guideline for Postoperative Delirium in Older Adults was developed by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and other participants in the Geriatrics-for-Specialists Initiative.
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Joint Commission revises pain management standard
Revisions to The Joint Commission’s Provision of Care, Treatment, and Services standard PC.01.02.07, which addresses pain management, were effective Jan. 1.