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Iowa Hospital Reaches $500k
Settlement Over Colonoscopy
Case
By Eric Oliver
D
enison, Iowa-based Crawford County Hospital
paid the widow of a patient who underwent a colo-
noscopy and later died from a severe infection
$500,000, The Des Moines Register reports.
Here's what you should know.
1 The patient underwent a routine colonoscopy at the hos-
pital. A surgeon accidentally tore the patient's colon dur-
ing the procedure. The hospital scheduled a follow-up sur-
gery the next day, but intestinal contents leaked into the
patient's abdomen, causing a severe infection. The patient
died eight days after the screening procedure.
2. The patient's widow sued the hospital in the following
months. The hospital and the patient's spouse reached a
settlement in April 2016.
3. The hospital released settlement documents Feb. 27, 2017,
despite initially claiming the matter was confidential.
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11 Statistics and Benchmarks
for Gastroenterology in ASCs
By Laura Dyrda
Here are 11 key statistics on gastroenterology in ASCs.
1. Case volume as a percentage of total cases: 25 percent
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2. Net revenue per case: $963
3. Compensation in office-based solo practice: $371,000
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4. Compensation at outpatient clinic: $260,000
5. Office-based single-specialty group practice compensa-
tion: $420,000
6. Pre-procedure time: 11 minutes to 98 minutes from
check-in to scope insertion
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7. Procedure time: 10 minutes to 27 minutes
8. Discharge time: 6 minutes to 80 minutes
9. Patients reporting minimal or no discomfort during bow-
el preparation: 71 percent
10. Patients waiting less than one month between schedul-
ing and undergoing procedure: 76 percent
11. Patients comfortable after discharge: 98 percent
