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Anesthesia Management: Investing in outpatient surgery centers

Surgery centers can be highly profitable businesses if they attract top physicians, deliver quality care and are efficiently operated. A report last year by Moody’s Investors Service predicted continued strong revenue growth for surgery centers, noting that they “provide care without the high-cost infrastructures associated with hospitals.” In fact, a number of hospitals are getting […]

This is another article not about our specialty but something that can effect our practice. Although preventing infections should be at the top of a hospital’s to-do list, a rapidly approaching penalty will soon give them a financial incentive to do so. A program which started at the beginning of the 2015 fiscal year, hospitals […]

Anesthesia Management: Referred pain location depends on the affected section of the sacroiliac joint

Published in Eur Spine J. 2014 Oct 5 Authors: Kurosawa D et al PURPOSE: Pain referred from the sacroiliac joint (SIJ) may originate in the joint’s posterior ligamentous region. The site of referred pain may depend on which SIJ section is affected. This study aimed to determine the exact origin of pain referred from four […]

Anesthesia Management: Better denials management strategies

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 […]

Anesthesia Management: Physician employment and buyout agreements: the basics

The 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 […]