In the ever-changing world of healthcare, new opportunities are opening up for ambulatory surgical centers. Insurance companies are leaning more toward shared-savings and bundled payments and all this is good news for ASCs. By proving their value and costs savings over traditional hospital settings, ASCs can become more competitive in the outpatient surgical setting.
This article by Laura Miller at ASC Review provides detailed information about the changes in the outpatient surgery landscape and how they might impact your surgical center.
Learn more here.
Are your patients following a low-dose aspirin regimen thinking it will reduce their risk of stroke, heart attack or heart disease? According to researchers and the 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, they should stop immediately. Three recent studies have found that aspirin therapy may not be benefiting them. And, in some cases, it could be doing harm.
As healthcare professionals, we hear a lot about hypertension and its negative effect on overall health. But, we don’t talk as much as we should about pulmonary hypertension (PH) — the type of high blood pressure that affects the arteries that run between the lungs and heart. Because PH is a progressive condition that if untreated can result in death in as little as two years, it deserves its own spotlight.
The majority of men are still so private when it comes to their health concerns, they don’t even discuss them with a doctor. That’s one of the revelations reported by the Cleveland Clinic in their newest nationwide survey of male patients.
