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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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Health plans are coming up with innovative ways to coordinate care for the countrys Medicaid beneficiaries, a population whose challenges include almost as many social issues as medical ones.
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Philadelphia-based Keystone Mercy Health Plan/AmeriHealth Mercys PerforMED, an intensive case management program for high-cost members receiving publicly funded health care, resulted in an adjusted savings of between $80 and $115 per member per month in the first six months.
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Passport Health Plans care programs for Medicaid beneficiaries has been able to show a cost savings of $191 million for the state of Kentucky in the eight years its been in operation.
