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Question: Our surgery center executive committee replaced our retiring administrator last month with a kid right out of (seemingly high) school who has no experience whatsoever in health care or clinical experience. I always thought the administrator must be a registered nurse.
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According to a survey of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) financial data, the mean annual profit margin for the 179 ASCs that responded was 28.1%, according to the Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association (FASA), which conducted the survey.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued some technical corrections to its interim final rule on Medicares list of procedures approved to be performed in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs).
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An initiative that assigns ownership of HEDIS®* measures to various staff members has resulted in improved HEDIS scores and national acclaim for Keystone Health Plan Central, a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital BlueCross, independent licensees of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.
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An estranged husband comes into the house while the home health nurse is teaching the patients mother how to do enteral therapy as he begins physically abusing the mother, he looks at the nurse and says, Youre next.
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As increasing numbers of older Americans spend their last days in a nursing home, its important for nursing home staff, as well as hospice providers, to identify nursing home patients who might qualify for a hospice placement, an end-of-life care expert says.
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One in three (33%) U.S. adults who have been prescribed drugs to take on a regular basis reported that they often or very often are noncompliant with the treatment regimen, according to a recent Harris Interactive on-line survey.
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When Blue Shield of California conducted a pilot project paying physicians for Internet-based consultations for nonurgent conditions, the San Francisco-based health plan found the initiative reduced office visit claims by $1.92 per member per month and total health care costs by $3.69 per member per month.
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Prices in the commercial insurance industry, which declined steadily in 2004 in the first yearlong soft market since 1998, may be showing signs of a rebound, according to a new survey.
