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…
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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
Learn how Medicare payment programs support rural hospitals, why enhanced funding is at risk, and what proposed legislation could mean for rural healthcare access.
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…
The Evolution Of Anesthesia Professional Fees
Anesthesia professional fees have evolved through a number of distinct phases over the past five decades; and, unfortunately, this history illustrates the most significant…
A Gentle Reminder: Anesthesia For Pain Injections Still Problematic
A rap on the knuckles with a wooden ruler, leading an offender by the ear to the principal’s office, a swift swat of the…
