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Author: Ayla Ellison Becker’s Hospital Review Brentwood, Tenn.-based Comprehensive Pain Specialists, three of its principal owners, its former CEO and a chiropractor are accused of engaging in a false billing scheme that defrauded Medicare and Tennessee’s Medicaid program of $25 million, according to the Department of Justice. The details of the alleged scheme are included […]
Read MoreBY MARK GILLISPIE AP Newly released federal data shows how drugmakers and distributors increased shipments of opioid painkillers across the U.S. as the nation’s addiction crisis accelerated from 2006 to 2012. The data, released this week by a federal court in Ohio as part of a far-reaching opioids case, shows that companies distributed 8.4 billion hydrocodone […]
Read MoreBy Amy Orciari Herman Preoperative albuterol helps prevent adverse respiratory events in children undergoing tonsillectomy, according to a JAMA Pediatrics study. Some 480 children aged 8 years or younger who were undergoing tonsillectomy under general anesthesia were randomized to receive inhaled albuterol or placebo roughly 20 minutes before surgery. Children with cardiopulmonary disease were excluded. […]
Read MoreWritten by Rachel Popa Anesthesia Business Consultants Key performance indicators can help ASCs measure how their anesthesia provider’s performance measures up, according to Alpharetta, Ga.-based Surgical Information Systems. Three KPIs to track: 1. Normothermia. This KPI tracks whether a patient’s temperature is out of the normal range. 2. Postoperative nausea and vomiting. Examining this KPI and decreasing […]
Read MoreBY AMY GUNIA Time Surgeons announced on Monday that they have separated conjoined twin sisters after multiple surgeries that took more than 50 hours to complete. Two-year-old Safa and Marwa Ullah underwent three surgeries carried out between October 2018 and February this year at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, according to the Guardian. The sisters, who hail from […]
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