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Uncategorized Published - 28 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: Rovenstine Lecture from ASA meeting : In Health Care, Anesthesiologists Must Take Charge or Be Led

The time has come to stop talking change and start leading change. U.S. health care is at a crossroads, and physician anesthesiologists are poised to take a leading role. “Health care is changing at an astounding, even alarming, rate,” said Karen Domino, M.D., M.P.H., Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University […]

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Uncategorized Published - 27 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: Coalition Fighting Opioid Epidemic Calls for New FDA Head

A coalition of more than 15 consumer advocacy groups and medical experts wants new leadership at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), charging that the agency’s opioid policies are exacerbating the nation’s epidemic of opioid addiction and overdose deaths. In a letter sent to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell […]

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Uncategorized Published - 27 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: Medicare outpatients pay much more at critical access hospitals

I wanted to share this with our readers because some of them practice in a critical access hospital. Many supplemental insurance policies for the elderly pick up the tab, but one in seven Medicare recipients lacks such a policy Many Medicare beneficiaries treated at primarily rural “critical access” hospitals end up paying between two and […]

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Uncategorized Published - 27 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: 5 quick tips for ICD-10 compliance

Suggestions for using the extra year wisely Even though the deadline for ICD-10 implementation is just a year away, many healthcare entities report not being ready. The freshest evidence: A survey by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), revealed that less than 11 percent of healthcare organizations are fully ready for the transition […]

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Uncategorized Published - 27 October, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Anesthesia Management: 6 characteristics you must know about job prospects before you hire them

Turnover in any position costs you real money. Turnover of good people leaving because they don’t want to work with your bad hires costs you even more. Nationally about 50 percent of new hires fail. Of those who succeed, only about 20 percent are top performers. But about 90 percent of failures are unrelated to […]

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