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Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

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N.J. Posts ASC Inspection Reports Online

State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

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While it's not always practical, or even possible, to eliminate opioids from your post-op pain management regiment, reducing their use in favor of n...

Archive > April, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 4

Staffing

Is Your Business Office the Best It Can Be?

Judith L. English

Whether there are two or 20 people in your business office, they perform many small and not-so-small activities that are critical to the success of your surgery center: scheduling, verifying insurance, coding, billing, posting payments, collecting, credentialing ... The list goes on and on.

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