A post-hoc analysis of a Phase 3 safety study demonstrated that tapentadol tablets were associated with a lower incidence of nausea, vomiting and constipation when compared to oxycodone immediate release tablets in elderly patients with moderate to severe low-back or…
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Significant income and wealth gaps between primary-care and specialty physicians influence medical students' career choices and have led to a shortage of primary care physicians, according to researchers at Duke University whose findings were published in Health Affairs.
CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.Q: Injections, including nerve blocks and facet joints, require exhaustive documentation, especially if multiple levels are involved. What information should pain management…
Here are the 2010 Medicare reimbursement rates for 11 nerve block procedures performed in the ASC setting.
CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.Here are the 2010 CMS payments for ASCs for six facet joint injection codes.
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St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor, Maine, will cut employees' pay by 5 percent for three months in reaction to lower volume of paying patients, according to a report by WABI TV.
Here are the top five payors by CMS region and volume for anesthesiology, according to GENASCIS's "Did You Know" benchmarking data. Note: Anesthesiology data not available for all CMS regions. Data may not be available for all states.
Establishing FMV for call coverage compensation is becoming increasingly difficult as arrangements are evolving and survey data is unreliable. The following will discuss recent trends in paying for call coverage, market statistics and the valuation considerations surrounding certain payment structures.
Here are four statistics about pain management in ASCs, according to SDI Health. 1. Pain management was among the top five surgical specialties found in singe-specialty ASCs, representing 5 percent of the total single-specialty ASC pool. Pain management followed gastroenterology…
As the recession began to bite into hospitals early last year, CEO Mark Newton of Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago made a familiar request. Rather than order layoffs, he asked employees to forgo their annual pay increases. But he added…