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Sterile Processing and Infection Control
The author answers recently asked questions regarding sterile processing and distribution.
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California Wildfires Teach ASC Leader Tough Lessons
While ASCs maintain disaster preparedness plans, they might not have developed a post-disaster process and plan. One ASC leader offers some advice on what to expect and how to prepare.
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Improving Payer Contracts: How to Navigate the Obstacle Course
Out-of-network health plans are not what they used to be for surgery centers. Payers have been fighting back against centers charging them more and patients less. Sometimes, this fight has gone to court, and payers have won millions of dollars from ASCs.
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CMS Proposes ASC Reimbursement Change
In late July, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed to change its Medicare ASC payment system for 2019 to the hospital market basket update instead of the CPI-U.
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Investigation Reveals Stark Difference in Opioid Use Among Spine Patients
The authors of a recent study found that spine surgery patients who were on opioids prior to their surgery were most likely to use opioids for a year or longer after surgery.
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New Research Sheds Light on Opioid Problems After Surgery
Investigators are studying the problems of surgery centers and physicians prescribing opioid medication with too little information about patients’ history with opioids and without adequate patient education on using and disposing of leftover drugs.
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Case Management Leaders: Without You, We’re Nothing, Part Two
This month, we will review five traits of effective leaders and examples of how they apply to case management.
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Offering Patients Hospital Care at Home
With hospitals and EDs overwhelmed with patients in many communities, there is growing interest in a concept that provides hospital-level care in the home for certain patients.
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Stop on REDD: Researchers Study Discharge Data on High-risk Patients
Researchers from Penn State and Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania developed a discharge-planning model they say is ahead of its time because it does not focus solely on readmission risks.
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Grant Funds ED Case Management for At-risk Population
A new grant is helping to provide a path toward stability for patients with mental and behavioral health issues who come to the ED.