This week's eAlert continues with additional reviews of some of the more thought-provoking e-posters from the ASA's PRACTICE MANAGEMENT™ 2019. The posters summarized here, like all of the other posters at this meeting, are based on initiatives at one institution. As such, the findings will not necessarily apply to other practices. However, the idea...

Will Latham, MBA President, Latham Consulting Group, Inc., Chattanooga, TN There is a lot of talk in anesthesia and all of medicine and healthcare today about providing value.These discussions primarily focus on providing value to important constituents (such as a hospital) so that the anesthesia group can continue to work with the institution. But...

As a follow up to last week's eAlert, we review additional e-posters presented at the ASA's PRACTICE MANAGEMENT™ 2019. As mentioned last week, please bear in mind that each of these studies represent the experience of a single institution, and the same study at your own institution might well produce a different result. These summaries are offered ...

Kickbacks in healthcare are rarely (but not never) as blatant as an envelope of cash passed under the table. But they do exist in many forms and settings.When asked why he robbed banks, the notorious criminal Willie Sutton reputedly responded, "Because that's where the money is." Referring physicians, quite often but not always the owners of facili...

Jody Locke, MA Vice President of Anesthesia and Pain Practice Management Services Anesthesia Business Consultants, LLC, Jackson, MI Uber has dramatically transformed the taxi business. We no longer talk of grabbing a cab; we "Uber" from point A to B. Airports now send us to ride-sharing pickup points where we see dozens of people staring at their p...