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Study: Bariatric surgery repays cost within two to four years
Though it typically costs between $17,000 and $26,000, gastric bypass surgery's costs are typically offset within two to four years by saving on other forms of medical care, according to a new... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Da Vinci robot growing popular
What's that device in the operating room--the one with four arms? It's the da Vinci robot, a new surgical device that allows doctors to perform surgery using small incisions while giving them more... Read more...
CA lawmakers push for tougher plastic surgery rules
Driven in part by the death of the mother of hip-hop star Kanye West, who was getting liposuction and breast implant surgery, California physicians and lawmakers are pushing to tighten up regulation... Read more...
Case study: Hospital takes lessons from Toyota
Among a certain breed of progressive hospitals, it's becoming increasingly in vogue to lift... Read more...
CA hospital cited for 'wrong-site' incident
An Orange County, CA-based hospital is now under state investigation after doing knee-repair surgery on a patient's healthy knee, marking the third "wrong-site" procedure to take place there since... Read more...
HHS advisories give guidance on doctor gain-sharing
With the release of two new advisory opinions by HHS, it's clearer now how hospitals can share cost savings with doctors without running afoul of regulators. One of the two opinions address address... Read more...
RI hospital faces third fine for wrong-side brain surgery
What should be a never event seems to be a "sometimes" event at one Rhode Island facility. Rhode Island Hospital has just been fined $50,000 and reprimanded by the state Department of Health after a... Read more...
BCBS plans phasing out pay for errors, 'never events'
Though they won't implement this change immediately, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans have decided that they won't pay for serious errors and "never events" like wrong surgical procedures and... Read more...
Study: Surgical fires more common than thought
Operating room fires are a particularly nasty complication of surgery, but in most cases, an extremely rare one--or so it has been thought. However, new data suggests that OR fires aren't quite as... Read more...
New tech designed to limit surgical errors
Here in FierceHealthcare, we've written often on the difficulty hospitals face in Read more...
