Healthcare revenue consulting firm Besler Consulting has released a free summary of CMS' Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule for 2013.
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Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md., named Courtney Harris, MD, as chief of the anesthesia department and Alex Mah, MD, to vice chair of anesthesiology.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists, along with senior officials from the FDA, will be hosting a telephone town hall meeting to talk about drug shortages, according to the ASA.
New Jersey will hold several public hearings to determine whether to allow hospitals without an on-site backup cardiac surgery unit to provide elective angioplasties, according to an NJ Spotlight report.
Layoffs have become common news in the hospital and healthcare industry, especially over the past couple years. In October alone, more than a dozen hospitals and health systems announced layoffs, including Baton Rouge-based Louisiana State University Health System's plan to…
Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai announced it reduced colorectal surgical site infections by more than 60 percent through a collaborative quality improvement project.
Hospitals with high rates of surgical site infections after hip arthroplasty can be identified with Medicare claims, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
CMS has issued a "Request for Information Regarding Health Care Quality for Exchanges" (pdf) in the Federal Register.
Fred Savelsbergh is not a typical CFO in today's hospital and healthcare industry.
CMS has issued a "Request for Information Regarding Health Care Quality for Exchanges" (pdf) in the Federal Register.