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Claims involving routine medical procedures - scopes, injections, punctures, biopsies, insertion of tubes, or imaging - resulted in $215 million in incurred losses, according to an analysis of 1,497 cases.
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George Washington University (GWU) Hospital in Washington, DC, prevailed in an 16-year-old lawsuit accusing the hospital of False Claims Act violations.
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An integrated system assisted providers at five orthopedic clinics in integrating video-based decision aids to support shared decision-making (SDM) into the care of potential candidates for joint replacement surgery. Group Health Cooperative, a Seattle-based system that provides care and coverage to more than 600,000, distributed decision aids to a portion of eligible patients, mostly the best surgical candidates. It was associated with significant reductions in surgery rates and overall healthcare costs among all potential joint replacement candidates.
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After a patient developed a bacterial infection following arthroscopic knee surgery and sued, a California surgery center was found guilty of negligence and ordered to pay more than half a million dollars to the patient. Three other patients became infected with bacteria, but the center couldn't track which instruments were used on which patients.
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Implementing a system to ensure the surgical team uses the most effective practices resulted in significant improvements in operating room (OR) performance, suggests research being presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists' (ASA) Practice Management 2014 meeting.
