Commercial insurers inaccurately process about 20 percent of claims filed by medical practices. It’s an industry standard that has weathered the test of time — though not in a good way. That figure is viewed as an accurate benchmark, even though it comes from a three-year-old edition of the National Health Insurer Report Card, compiled […]
Read MoreThe standard employment agreement will define the term of the agreement, the scope of duties and expectations, and license requirements and benefits Employment and buyout agreements are usually referred to as “governance documents” for physician practices, and there are more than just these two. But do you really need these documents? If you are a […]
Read MoreAccidental awareness during general anaesthesia happens in roughly one in every 19,000 cases, according to a major new study on this highly feared complication. This incidence of “waking up” during surgery is much lower than previous estimates, which were as high as 1 in 600, the authors say. In accidental awareness during general anaesthesia (AAGA), […]
Read MorePendulum Swings Again Authors: M. C. Kelleher, D. J. Buggy Br J Anaesth. 2014;113(3):335-337. Since the 1980s, evidence has been accumulating that survivors of major surgery generate a higher postoperative cardiac output than non-survivors, and that achieving a supra-normal oxygen delivery to the body’s major organs (DO2, normally greater than 1000 ml O2min) in the […]
Read MoreThe AABB, formerly the American Association of Blood Banks, recommends that adults with therapy-induced hypoproliferative thrombocytopenia should receive a prophylactic platelet transfusion to lower their bleeding risk, according to new guidelines published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The recommendation — the only one strongly endorsed by the group — advises that hospitalized adults with […]
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