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As long as hospitals have bed capacity, elective orthopedic surgery can continue during the pandemic, a prominent orthopedic surgeon says.

New research shows interprofessional conflicts between female surgeons and nonphysician staff can be addressed at the individual and institutional levels.

The experience left one patient feeling as if the hospital offered her a fake discount to reel in her business.

A KFF analysis finds that admissions cratered in March and April but were at 95% of predicted admissions by mid-summer.

Informed by a ProPublica article investigating why Black Americans were three times more likely to undergo diabetic amputations, five members...

In general, Medicare considers E/M services provided on the day of a procedure to be part of the work of...

A new survey from Avanza Healthcare Strategies and Healthleaders found hospitals and health systems that plan to increase investments in...

Since the mastectomy is a staged/planned and therapeutic procedure performed after a diagnostic service, modifier -58 is appropriate.

Combining the World Health Organization's operating room checklist with a preoperative and postoperative checklist benefits patients, research indicates.

Given the high and rapidly growing volume, it's easy to see why joint replacement operations have become a vital chunk...

Even with CARES Act money, Kaufman Hall reports YTD operating margins are about -50% compared with 2019.

Dr. Bert W. O'Malley, Jr is scheduled to make his return to the medical center in November.