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You work at a freestanding surgery center across from a medical center. A surgeon wants to schedule an incision and drainage (I&D) of a breast abscess on a pregnant patient scheduled for an elective cesarean in a few days. Your anesthesiologist is hesitant and cites concerns about inducing labor and, more importantly, fetal distress. What do you do?
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New treatments that can be performed in an office-based surgery setting for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), also known as enlarged prostate, are improving patient comfort and providing more lasting results, according to experts interviewed by Same-Day Surgery.
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Tattoos are no longer associated only with gang members and musicians or actors. While tattoos have less of a stigma than in the past, experts interviewed by Same-Day Surgery say that they continue to see an increase in their tattoo removal business.
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Last month, I received a number of e-mails about issues related to staffing both with hospital departments and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). The questions and, I hope, the answers might benefit others.
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Starting Jan. 1, hospitals will receive a 3.3% inflation update in payment rates for services provided in outpatient departments (OPDs), under a final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Same-day surgery programs and office-based surgery programs must choose at least 10 of the look-alike and sound-alike drug names to place on their watch list of medications that can be easily confused to meet the 2005 national patient safety goal that focuses upon reducing medication errors.
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The construction is complete; you have your occupancy certificate; and youre ready to start taking patients. Unfortunately, you have no payer contracts and no license, and you cant obtain any until youre accredited. What are your options?
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Setting up an ambulatory surgery center is a complicated process in the best of circumstances, but when your same-day surgery center is a single-specialty center that handles pain management procedures, there are challenges not faced by other same-day surgery managers, says experts interviewed by Same-Day Surgery.
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How to keep your surgery program alive and well. It always seems as if there are obstacles that get in our way when we try to do our job. Below are some interesting roadblocks that your peers are facing. You are not alone out there!
