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Five new mid-year codes representing surgical services were added to the list of ambulatory surgery center (ASC) payable procedures, effective July 1, 2012, according to the ASC Association
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For a year and a half, the University of Michigan (U-M) Health System in Ann Arbor turned one of its head and neck surgery practices into a laboratory.
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In nearly every business, the single largest expense and asset is people. Staff! Full time, part time, per diem, travelers however you classify them, they are the largest line item on your budget, and often your largest headache.
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At the start of leading an 18-month pilot project to explore organ donation for patients who died in the emergency department (ED) at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Clifton W. Callaway, MD, believed the team was "creating, in reality, what the general public already thought existed."
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Access to the electronic health record (EHR) of an individual patient as well as what the person looking at the record does with that information remain concerns for all professionals and institutions involved in patient care.
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If a provider tells patients they might have been exposed to a blood-borne pathogen when they actually weren't, then the patients worried needlessly when there was no actual health risk.
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Is there clear and convincing evidence that an individual has no pain that would justify a prescription analgesic and is, therefore, seeking medication solely because of an addictive disorder, recreational use, or with the intent of diverting it to others?
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In general, patients think of a screening test as a good thing, says Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, director of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, NY. "Patients aapproach this thinking that it is better to test than not test, and doctors have to be aware of that bias," he says.
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Most IRB directors or chairs can recount stories about their tensions with investigators. All boards must balance the institution's need to protect subjects with investigators' concerns about unduly hampering their research.
