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Worried About Staff Burnout? Here are Prevention Strategies
Surgery centers, like most healthcare organizations, have to deal with staff burnout and stress. But there are healthy strategies that help staff deal with work stress, and there institutional policies that might reduce burnout.
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Here are Three Laws All ASCs Should Know
Every physician and ambulatory surgery center should know how to avoid violating federal statutes that protect taxpayer money from unscrupulous or unknowledgeable healthcare providers. Here are three laws every ASC and doctor should know:
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Healthcare Providers Paid $3.5B to Feds Over False Claims Act Cases
When a Georgia-based nurse anesthesia group paid more than $1 million in August in a civil settlement related to violations of the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute and Medicaid policies, the organization, which operates in ambulatory surgery centers, joined a long list of healthcare companies that have run afoul of the False Claims Act.
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To Curb Workplace Violence, Start Small, Consider Holistic Approaches
Address employee concerns, but try to resist the latest gadgets in favor of more affordable, targeted solutions, experts say.
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To Avoid Audits, Code to the Highest Level of Specificity Documented
The resources necessary to resolve claim disputes and manage audits is extraordinary, so the best policy is to avoid audits at all costs by documenting the specifics of each case managed in the ED.
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Improving Care Coordination for Substance Abuse Patients
Approach goes one step beyond offering a warm handoff to patients, upping the odds that patients follow through on needed treatment.
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EDs Leverage Multiple Techniques to Slash Wait Times, Create Space
Hospitals emphasize the importance of tracking performance, keeping higher-level executives in the loop on key patient flow metrics.
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Why Do the Beats Keep Changing?
What clinical situation commonly is associated with arrhythmias such as the one shown in this figure?
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: Early response to exercise in depressed patients; when to escalate smoking cessation in COPD patients; and new tuberculosis screening recommendations.
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Adalimumab-atto Injection (Amjevita)
Adalimumab-atto provides an alternative to adalimumab for multiple chronic inflammatory conditions.