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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.
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Community Memorial Hospital in Menomonee Falls, WI, had an occupational health and wellness program that had served its 1,500 employees quite well for many years. But the rocketing costs of health care benefits suddenly meant that Community Memorials occ-health program had to do more.
