Who Gets to Decide How Long a Surgery Needs to Be?
A major insurer recently reversed course on its plan to outright deny claims for anesthesia services. According to recent policy announcements, Anthem Blue Cross Blue
Visiting an emergency room can often be an uneventful experience. However, when a patient’s symptoms don’t automatically point to a likely diagnosis, emergency room doctors – and more often now physician assistants and ARNPs – must approach the task of making a diagnosis with intellectual curiosity. When the health care provider guesses about the diagnosis instead of making a list of possible diagnoses and ruling out the most dangerous ones first patients can be unnecessarily injured.
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A major insurer recently reversed course on its plan to outright deny claims for anesthesia services. According to recent policy announcements, Anthem Blue Cross Blue
Someone has developed “black boxes” for the OR. Black boxes, also known as flight data recorders, have been used to collect information from aircrafts for
A recent article in MedPage Today discussed concerns with the increasing use of anesthesia outside of the operating room. In general, non-OR anesthesia poses greater