Ambulatory Surgery Centers correctly answered 2023
Med/Surg - correct answer Slang term that reflects the two most common physician specialty categories of: Internal Medicine and Surgery
Peter Drucker - correct answer Hospitals are perhaps the most complicated business enterprise ever created by mankind.
Prior to 1970 - correct answer All surgical procedures took place in the Department of Surgery, O.R of a Hospital.
In the 1970's - correct answer The development of the computer chip camera, permitted visualization of organs. The development of free stand ambulatory surgery centers.
Minimally Invasive Surgery - correct answer Surgeon makes small incisions and inserts tubes called trochars, carbon dioxide can be used to inflate area to allow for more space to perform procedure. A camera is inserted into the opening. Special instruments placed into the other opening to perform the procedure.
Why Minimally invasive surgery - correct answer Shorter hospital stays, less scaring, less pain, decreased chance of complications
Arthroscopy - correct answer Procedure used to treat or view the interior of a joint, most commonly knee, shoulder, elbow, wrist, ankle, foot, and hip.
Endoscopy - correct answer "looking inside", does not need to make incisions, uses to look inside organs or orifices.
Gastroscopy - correct answer Views the stomach Laryngoscopy - correct answer View the Larynx
Cytoscopy - correct answer Views the Urinary tract.
Laparoscopy - correct answer Performed in the abdominal area using several small incisions.
Phacoemulsification - correct answer Removal of Cateracts and Replacement with Introocular lense.
Values held by a doctor - correct answer Respect, Autonomy, Control, Efficiency, Quality Patient Care, and Time.
Why physicians created ASC's - correct answer Schedualing delays, limited operating room availability, department budgets, slow turnover, interruptions caused by emergency cases, policies and procedures of the hospitals
Where was the first ASC created? - correct answer Phoenix, Arizona
Physician Owned ASC's - correct answer 65%
Hospital-Physician Joint Ventured ASC's - correct answer 17%
Why to invest in an ASC? - correct answer Control, productivity, probable income increase, less hospital hassles.
Stark Law - correct answer prohibits a referral of Medicare/Medicaid patient to an entity a physician has financial interest for any of the 11 desiganated health services. ASC is not one of these services
Anti Kick Back - correct answer prohibits the offering, receiving, paying, soliciting any remuneration in exchange for the referral of Medicare/Medicaid patients.
Anti Kick Back safe harbors - correct answer Exceptions to the anti kick back law.
Med/Surg - correct answer Slang term that reflects the two most common physician specialty categories of: Internal Medicine and Surgery
Peter Drucker - correct answer Hospitals are perhaps the most complicated business enterprise ever created by mankind.
Prior to 1970 - correct answer All surgical procedures took place in the Department of Surgery, O.R of a Hospital.
In the 1970's - correct answer The development of the computer chip camera, permitted visualization of organs. The development of free stand ambulatory surgery centers.
Minimally Invasive Surgery - correct answer Surgeon makes small incisions and inserts tubes called trochars, carbon dioxide can be used to inflate area to allow for more space to perform procedure. A camera is inserted into the opening. Special instruments placed into the other opening to perform the procedure.
Why Minimally invasive surgery - correct answer Shorter hospital stays, less scaring, less pain, decreased chance of complications
Arthroscopy - correct answer Procedure used to treat or view the interior of a joint, most commonly knee, shoulder, elbow, wrist, ankle, foot, and hip.
Endoscopy - correct answer "looking inside", does not need to make incisions, uses to look inside organs or orifices.
Gastroscopy - correct answer Views the stomach Laryngoscopy - correct answer View the Larynx
Cytoscopy - correct answer Views the Urinary tract.
Laparoscopy - correct answer Performed in the abdominal area using several small incisions.
Phacoemulsification - correct answer Removal of Cateracts and Replacement with Introocular lense.
Values held by a doctor - correct answer Respect, Autonomy, Control, Efficiency, Quality Patient Care, and Time.
Why physicians created ASC's - correct answer Schedualing delays, limited operating room availability, department budgets, slow turnover, interruptions caused by emergency cases, policies and procedures of the hospitals
Where was the first ASC created? - correct answer Phoenix, Arizona
Physician Owned ASC's - correct answer 65%
Hospital-Physician Joint Ventured ASC's - correct answer 17%
Why to invest in an ASC? - correct answer Control, productivity, probable income increase, less hospital hassles.
Stark Law - correct answer prohibits a referral of Medicare/Medicaid patient to an entity a physician has financial interest for any of the 11 desiganated health services. ASC is not one of these services
Anti Kick Back - correct answer prohibits the offering, receiving, paying, soliciting any remuneration in exchange for the referral of Medicare/Medicaid patients.
Anti Kick Back safe harbors - correct answer Exceptions to the anti kick back law.
