August 2004 Table of Contents 3 Questions About Autoclavable Endoscopes What you need to know before you switch from chemical sterilization or upgrade your old scopes. Is Your Anesthesia Contract All It Should Be? When it's time to renegotiate, here are 10 tips to get the best arrangement for your facility. Ask the Experts How Do You Determine Man Hours per Case? Coding & Billing When Medicare Won't Cover Knee Arthroscopy Do You Outsource Your Billing? Our online survey found that most facility managers would rather not hand off this critical function. Are they missing out on a good thing? Editor's Page Your Necessary Evils Ideas That Work One-two Punch Is Key to Room Turnover Infection Prevention SUD Reprocessing Update Inside the Rent-a-patient Scam About 5,000 healthy patients were recruited nationwide and flown to California, where they underwent surgeries that were billed at excessive amounts to their insurance companies. Legal Update When Physicians Go Bare Letters & E-mails My Turn Death by Malpractice Premium This Just In States Should Abolish CONs, Says Government Report Product News Oximetry Unplugged The Push for Mandatory Office Accreditation Despite association mandates and serious adverse outcomes, fewer than 2,000 office-based suites have been accredited. What's holding them back? Safety Protecting Patients From Laparoscopic Burns Secrets of a Bustling Gastrointestinal Center How one GI center has nearly quadrupled its caseload ??? to more than 17,000 procedures annually ??? and continues to grow. Secrets of Our Successful Glove Trial We ran our trial in three weeks and got the three results we wanted - to save money, reduce our inventory and settle on one company's product line. Thinking of Buying...A Sterilizer Here's how to determine the right method, right turn-around time, right size and right price for your facility. What's New for Cataract Surgery A report from the exhibit hall at the 2004 meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons. What's New In Surgical Drapes The latest in drapes that could save you time, improve safety and provide greater patient and staff comfort. DID YOU SEE THIS?
