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A video that is tailored to the specific needs of office-based and ambulatory programs explains The Joint Commission's focus on continuous performance improvement with survey techniques such as the tracer methodology.
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The 2008 payment system from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gives ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) additional payments for radiology, devices, and drugs or biologics used in procedures, according to the Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association (FASA).
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In a final payment rule for hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) predicts that HOPD payment would increase by 3.8%, considering market basket update and other factors.
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Last month I wrote about my annoyances in the surgical environment, and I obviously touched a nerve for many of you.
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Failed relationships, evenings better forgotten, and a desire to go against society norms are just a few of memories evoked by tattoos that a growing number choose to remove.
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Extra help in reducing surgical site infections (SSIs) can come from an unlikely source: a pain management pump.
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The growth rate of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in the United States is exceeding that of hospitals and is expected to keep climbing, according to a report from the Health Industry Distributors Association (HIDA) in Alexandria, VA.
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A patient deciding to change doctors is not an unusual occurrence; sometimes, the physician doesn't even learn the reason for the change. It's a much more highly charged situation when a physician decides he or she must end a professional relationship with a patient.
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A medical error creates guilt, fear, and loneliness for both the caregiver and the patient and patient's family feelings that can lead each side to withdraw unless efforts are taken by all parties to develop solutions and foster forgiveness.
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A third-year medical student sits with an end-stage lung cancer patient who is in hospice. The patient wants to talk, but not about pain or death or advance directives he wants to know the student's plans for the future.
