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Accreditation for Medical Bill Collectors

Healthcare collection professionals and medical organizations have joined forces to create the Accredited Healthcare Business Association, an accred...

The Cost of Avoidable Surgical Errors

The negative impact of preventable medical errors goes well beyond patient harm and ruined reputations in the OR. According to data released by the ...

Groundbreaking Incision-free Surgeries

In the future, physicians may be able to treat patients' obesity and remove their gallbladders without taking a single scalpel to their skin, if two...


	Archive > November 2004	Vol. V, No. 11

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Grow Your Bottom Line Without Doing One More Case

Are you leaving money on the table? Here are 10 ways to collect what's rightfully yours — and get paid in full.

No Smoking In the OR

In your quest for safer surgery, here's how to convince your surgeons to actually use the smoke evacuation devices you've purchased.

12 Tips to Cut Cataract Case Costs

Here's how your colleagues are battling back against higher supply and equipment costs and frozen reimbursements.

5 Tips for Managing Pediatric Post-op Pain

How to prepare your facility, your patients and your patients' parents.

6 Tips for Switching Distributors

Whom you contract this valuable service to might be your biggest sleeper in terms of cost and operational efficiency.

Survey: Brushless Scrubs Catching On

Many who use the new alcohol-based products say scrub times and skin problems have decreased while infection rates have stayed the same.

On the Path to Perpetual Inventory

A thriving facility is well on its way to automating its materials management system and reducing its supply cost per case.

Thinking of Buying...Liquid Waste Disposal Systems

Find out how to meet the challenge of disposing of fluid waste safely and economically.

DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Page

The Rise of the Joint Venture

This Just In

Ideas that Work

Give Patient Escorts a Beeper

Staffing

Volunteers: Valuable and Free

Legal Update

Malpractice Policies to Live By

Coding & Billing

Leaving Money on the Table?

Ask the Experts

Mopping the OR Floors Between Cases

Hospital OR Monitor

Innovative Safety Lessons

Safety

Speak Up to Prevent Sharps Injuries

Infection Prevention

Is Your Water Safe?

Product News

Scar-less Surgery?

My Turn

Compassion Fatigue?

November 2004

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