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When considering purchasing items from on-line auctions, buyer beware, says Deb Ulmer, MSN, RN, nurse administrator at Lake Mary (FL) Surgery Center.
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Your front desk staff members have to be courteous, friendly, and patient, even when they are asked, How is my family member doing? for the 10th time in a two-hour period.
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One of the most frightening aspects of injuries caused by stray electrosurgical current is that almost 70% of these injuries are undetected during surgery and 25% of patients with undetected burns during surgery die, even after aggressive treatment once the injury is discovered.
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Insurance companies favor fusion surgery over back pain management therapies, according to a recent panel of orthopedic surgeons, interventional radiologists, physiatrists, and pain management specialists from academic centers.
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Question: Our surgery center has a management contract with a well-known surgery center management company. Our board is considering terminating that contract because everything is running well at the center, and they dont want to pay the high fees per month (6% of net collected revenue).
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Outpatient surgery programs will be able to offer the outpatient lap band procedure to Medicare beneficiaries following an announcement that the procedure now is covered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the approval of a new class of New Technology Intraocular Lenses (NTIOL) that is eligible for an additional $50 payment when the lens is provided in a surgery center.
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Although the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations previously announced that random unannounced surveys would continue through 2008, the date for the end of random unannounced surveys has been changed to Dec. 31, 2007, says Mark Forstneger, spokesperson for the Joint Commission.
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Rapid response teams are a strategy that relies on a team called to a patients bedside to investigate potential problems that might lead to a Code Blue, and this strategy is proving effective in reducing patient deaths.
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More than 10% of all sentinel events reported by organizations accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations relate to medication errors, and in ambulatory and office-based surgery organizations the rate is almost 8%.
