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The average net income per case reported by participants in a Midwest benchmarking study 2005 Midwest Ambulatory Surgical Center Benchmark and Salary Survey ranged from $94.31 to $307.20 per case, with the average total operating expense ranging from $528.84 to $1,241.23.
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Organizations accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations can see detailed implementation expectations for the 2006 National Patient Safety Goals on its web site.
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Hospital-based outpatient surgery departments will receive a 3.2% inflation update in Medicare payment rates in 2006 under a proposed Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Can you imagine spending almost three years renegotiating a payer contract? Thats exactly what the administrator did at Amherst-based Ambulatory Surgery Center of Western New York, with the help of a consultant.
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When adding new procedures at your facility, performing a financial analysis is a critical step.
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What is a good policy on cell phones in the operating room environment? We have phones going off all over the place in here. I find it very distracting!
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Baxter Healthcare Corp. in Deerfield, IL, is recalling all models of its Colleague Volumetric Infusion Pumps because they can shut down while delivering medication and fluids to patients.
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Behavioral surveys of adolescents always are a delicate proposition, requiring consent from parents as well as assent from the child and asking both to consider the possible implications of participation.
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As IRBs move to improve the quality of human subjects protection in international research, they should pursue a model of informed consent that begins long before an individual signs a consent document and continues afterward.
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Public trust in clinical trial research was damaged in the past year because of conflicts of interest issues that arose with the NIH and by front-page media reports about drugs that had been studied and approved, yet were found later to result in deaths among some people who used them.
