Patient Safety Concerns: #3 – Adverse Events
“Do no harm” is a precept long accepted in the medical community throughout the world. While not part of the original Hippocratic oath, Hippocrates…
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Stroke Management for Anesthesia
In the United States, nearly 795,000 people experience a new or recurrent stroke annually, which equates to one stroke every 40 seconds. About 610,000 of…
Avoiding the Shoals: Navigating The Compliance Challenges Ahead
Maine is known for its beautiful lighthouses—sole sentinels warning wayward vessels from venturing too close to shore. The lighthouse serves as a powerful reminder…
Anesthesia And Cardiovascular Services
There was a time when the cardiovascular anesthesiologists were the top earners and the key leaders of so many anesthesia groups. Over time, however,…
Country Boy Can Survive: Medicare Payment for Rural Hospitals
They can skin a buck and run a trot line (to quote the well-known Hank, Jr. lyric), but can those who live in America’s…
Reducing The Strain: Hospital Slashes Non-Urgent ER Visits
Nikola Tesla was an innovator. Without his insight and experiments, we wouldn’t have the alternating current (AC) motor—which was an improvement upon the older…
Inpatient Versus Outpatient: What It Means in Today’s Anesthesia Market
There was a point in time when most surgical cases were performed in an inpatient operating room. Over time, many cases began to migrate into…
Cutting Through The Red Tape: Judge Strips Burdensome M&A Requirements
We’ve all seen the meme. There’s a long line of people waiting patiently for their turn to get into an exclusive night club. A…
A Different Time Zone: Searching The Outer Limits Of Anesthesia Time
Go back to the 1960s. Television series such as The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone were all the rage with a certain segment of the American viewer.…
The Complexities of Evaluating Anesthesia Subsidy Performance
On the surface, anesthesia support agreements appear straightforward and involve a very simple computation: Collections – Provider Comp – Operating Expenses= Financial Support Required…
Their Favorite Targets: Auditors Zero In On Particular Pain Services
There are times when we just have to do it. We get the urge to set up a few tin cans on the fence…
Cyber Security: The Year In Review
We live in a digital world; you know that, right? I mean, we can romanticize about days gone by when mankind was completely delinked…
