The Role of Anesthesia in Accountable Care Organizations
An Introduction to an Accountable Anesthesia Organization Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are an important component of the healthcare reform law and its goal to provide cost-effective, high quality care. Anesthesia services…
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Ambulatory Anesthesia: Performance that Stands Out
Over the past few years, the rapid growth in ambulatory surgeries has resulted in additional regulatory requirements and a shift in focus toward quality of patient outcomes. Quality standards have been…
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Modernizing Anesthesia in a Changing Healthcare Marketplace
With today's healthcare marketplace in the midst of major reform, traditional anesthesia operations face daunting obstacles and challenges exposing financial and clinical risk to their hospitals. Modernizing a hospital's anesthesia department…
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Ambulatory Anesthesia: Maximizing Quality in Any Setting
Anesthesia has always been a critical component of surgery and overall operations in the operating room (O.R.). Improvement in the administration of anesthetics has led to a significant increase in the amount…
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White Paper: Bending the Healthcare Cost Curve Toward Improved Anesthesia Value
The traditional anesthesia cost curve indicates that as anesthesia spend increases, anesthesia value tends to decrease. The opposite also holds true – as anesthesia value increases the anesthesia spend decreases. Unfortunately,…