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It was mostly good news in a long-awaited report from the General Accounting Office (GAO) analyzing costs at ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs).1
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Leaders of the ambulatory surgery community are praising Congress for passing a provision that requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to develop quality reporting requirements for ambulatory surgery centers and hospital outpatient services.
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According to a newly released report, reimbursement for gastroenterology procedures provided in surgery centers will decrease by as much as 20% in coming years, which will require a significant restructuring of many practices.
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Eventually, we will all be the victim of unscrupulous individuals that wish to plunder our coffers of supplies, cash, or other value at our facilities. The issue is not how to deal with it after it occurs (a nightmare), but rather how to prevent it in the first place.
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He receives requests for certain songs. People bring their own CDs for him to play. And there are days that everyone in the room is tapping their toes.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of silicone breast implants. This decision comes 14 years after the FDA restricted access to the silicone implants because of safety concerns.
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San Leandro (CA) Surgery Center typically experienced one or two patient falls a year, so managers were shocked when three falls occurred in a three-month period in early 2006.
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When she read the news stories and alerts from Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations about fake surveyors, Suzanne L. Broome, RN, center director of Blue Ridge Surgery Center in Seneca, SC, instructed her staff to be sure to check the identification of anyone who claimed to be a surveyor.
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Updated guidelines for all medical and dental practitioners regarding the monitoring and management of pediatric patients during and after sedation have been developed jointly by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry.
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The biggest challenge for outpatient centers is having the anesthesiologists, anesthetists, sedation nurses, circulating nurses, and post-anesthesia care nurses who have the knowledge and experience to care for sedated pediatric patients, says Randall M. Clark, MD, chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists' (ASA's) Committee on Pediatric Anesthesia.
