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A plastic surgeon offers free mammary endowments to his female staff and expects them to wear scrubs two sizes too small to show them off.
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Over the years, outpatient surgery program managers have struggled with the dilemma of whether parents should be allowed into the operating room. While some programs have prohibited the practice, other programs do allow parents in the operating room with the belief that a parents presence reduces a childs anxiety.
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A study of more than 16,000 Medicare patients who underwent bariatric surgery shows a higher mortality rate than reported in previous studies.
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How frustrating to miss an opportunity that rarely comes. How many times have we looked back on missed opportunities, such as the phone call never answered that offered a great opportunity. Or you declined a new job position where the company went public and your stock options would have been worth millions.
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Hospital outpatient surgery departments (HOPDs) have been given good news: They will receive a 3.7% increase in Medicare payment rates in 2006 under a final Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS originally had proposed a 3.2% increase.
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A newly approved report on intraoperative awareness from the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) says that depth-of-anesthesia monitors are not standard, but that they should be available for cases that may be high risk, such as cardiac cases.
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These words from a surgical administrator involved in a wrong-site surgery early in his career at another facility convey the devastation that providers feel when they are involved in a wrong-site surgery.
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In 1996, myringotomy with tympanostomy tube insertion was the most frequently performed procedure on children younger than the age of 15. More than 95% or 490,000 of the 512,000 myringotomies performed that year were performed in an ambulatory surgery setting.
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To avoid seeing your reimbursement drastically reduced by payers, do the following:
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At least 4,000 patients at two North Carolina hospitals underwent surgical procedures that used hydraulic fluid in the sterilization process. The hospitals, part of the Duke University Health System, determined that workers for an elevator company emptied the fluid into several empty detergent drums while performing maintenance in mid-September 2004. The workers capped the soap containers without changing the labels.
