"Experience teaches us that this is occurring across the country," says Carol Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS. "APPs are expanding skills under the tutelage...Read More »
New Jersey has two types of “surgery centers.” Of the 300 registered surgery centers, about half are traditional licensed ambulatory surgical...Read More »
"Team leadership is initially about setting goals, constraints and guiding principles to help them through. Then, let them drive the daily...Read More »
A surgical team in Argentina—comprised of a surgeon, an anesthesiologist, two surgical assistants, and a surgical nurse—has been suspended after...Read More »
While the concept of practitioner performance monitoring has been around for more than a century, the continuing march toward value-based reimbursement and integrated care makes routine evaluation more important than ever. As the tools driving this effort, performance indicators are critical to...
"I was surprised that the measure changes were not huge. The measures that have been proposed for removal are not that highly used—we were...Read More »
The third largest health system in the United States, Providence St. Joseph Health System struggled with an issue common among health systems: how...Read More »
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (the “Court”) denied a hospital’s motion to dismiss a plaintiff’s claim...Read More »
