Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Companies in USA

Neuromonitoring is one of the fastest growing health care field, it is a fusion between Neuroscience and surgical medicine. [To Learn more about neuromonitoring visit: http://neuromonitoring1.blogspot.com]. In the past years, several start up companies began providing neuromonitoring services to hospitals and surgeons involved in Neurosurgery, orthopeadic surgery and vascular surgeries around USA. Here is a list of those Neuromonitoring Companies in USA. For IONM and contact's go to my blog

Friday, November 19, 2010

Sentient settles for $2.7 million in alleged Medicare fraud case

Hunt Valley firm admits no error, says issues occurred under previous owner By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun

Sentient Medical Systems of Hunt Valley has agreed to pay the U.S. government $2.7 million to settle accusations that it submitted false Medicare claims.
The company's former CEO, Jeffrey H. Owen, is also named as a party in the settlement, according to documents outlining the agreement. Owen sold the company in 2007.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-surgical-settlement-20101117,0,6151367.story

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NeuroMonitoring Companies: Europe

Providers in Europe:
Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Practice at UniversitatsSpital Zurich:

NeuroMonitoring Suppliers in Europe:
1.CPS Medical: NeuroCode AG

NeuroMonitoring Supplier in Russia:
1.Neurosoft, Medical Diagnostic Equipment
Worldwide Distribution list

IONM in New Zealand:

What are the chances of getting a job?

Opportunities to get into neurophysiology technologist jobs are very limited, as there are only 20 neurophysiology technologists employed in New Zealand.

IONM in Switzerland:
Anandic Medical Systems a local Swiz company with GE Partnership that does neuromonitoring and neonatal pediatric neuromonitoring monitoring.

Medical/Health Care: Insurance Companies and IONM Policies, in their Eyes!?

Here is what the insurance Co Anthem Blue thinks about what is medically necessary or investigational as per their policies!

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Medical Policy Manual

Intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring, including, but not limited to the following: Somatosensory-evoked potentials, brainstem auditory-evoked potentials, visual-evoked potential, EMG, motor-evoked potentials, and EEG, when performed during spinal, intracranial, or vascular procedures, is considered medically necessary if the medical appropriateness criteria are met. (See Medical Appropriateness below.)
Intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring for other indications is considered investigational.
Any device utilized for this procedure must have FDA approval specific to the indication, otherwise it will be considered investigational. See also: Visual and Auditory Evoked Potential

Beware:- Do We Need this column?

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Do Not Become victim to some New Org, association or society...! WARNING:- Be careful in signing up to some rogue organizations and memberships, You must realize that even professionals become prey for such tactics of bottom feeders, just think before you pay that fee, do we need another neuromontioring group, or organization or association bullshit?. They do not deserve to be even in the radar of scientific and medical communities, sorry!!!. I can only alert you, the rest is in your own hands, just because some one claims to have done or do the same kind of job a Professional and trained scholar can do, it means a jack shit!!!?, A doctor and a Doctarate cannot be replaced, those who claims to be doing some jobs can do something, but be careful to assess or compare it to a Doctor or Doctorate, such comparison will fail!!!. Society for Neuroscience and American Association of Anatomists are some of the most respectable and reputed scientific organizations, I dropped off my membership mainly because of their increased fees, I thought it was unjustified and unreasonable, but my respect to those two organizations will never be altered, they deserve great respect for what they do. Tthis message is not about such great associations, on the other hand it is about some rogue individuals trying to con the school students in IONM field or undergraduates who call themselves to be a neurophysioliogist??.Do not think that all the scientific or clinical organizations out there deserve the same respect like that of society for neuroscience or American association anatomists or American clinical Neurophysiologists or least they do the right things!!. Oh wait that is for those established organizations are out there already not for some rogues, but I have been seeing some internet activities of some rogue and decorated Neuromonitoring associations and societies trying to sprung up, just be careful about such org.The above message I had put up on my LinkedIN is to alert you, there are only a couple of Neuromonitoring associations established and in business already and they are good enough, we do not need every tom, dick and harry who did not even go to graduate school to start a association in the name of he or she is a tech for 10000 surgical cases, a Doctor and Doctorate cannot be replaced and there is no exception to it, so beware about rogue people starting societies and organizations and do not waste your hard earned money and resources to it...... stick to the deserved.

100 Best Places to work in Health Care!

Interesting to note one of the Las Vegas medical facility listed under the Top 100 best health care facility to work?. Also one from Reno "Renown Health (Reno, Nev.)Type of facility: Hospital/health system"
The Institute of Orthopaedic Surgery (Las Vegas)

Type of facility: Ambulatory surgery center
What makes it a Best Place to Work: Establishedby the physicians of Desert Orthopaedic Center, The Institute for Orthopaedic Surgery provides care for every orthopedic subspecialty. Opened in May 2002, the Institute of Orthopaedic Surgery is fully licensed and accredited by the AAAHC. According to employees, the
supervisor of The Institute for Orthopaedic Surgery encourages employeesto submit ideas for center improvement, many of which have focused on streamlining processes. The center has established specific discharge standing orders in a "step-down binder" to make instructions precise foreach patient and simplify the post-surgical process. "We tend to make
patients feel very comfortable because the atmosphere is relaxing and the staff is cheerful," says Paul F. Jarrett II. "The flow of the surgical process is outstanding!" According to employees, the center is small enough to provide a familiar atmosphere and large enough to order generous benefits.

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Despite the growing shortage of family doctors in the United States, medical centers last year offered higher salaries and incentives to specialist nurses than to primary care doctors, according to an annual survey of physicians' salaries. Primary care doctors were offered an average base salary of $173,000 in 2009 compared to an average base salary of $189,000 offered to certified nurse anesthetists, or CRNAs, according to the latest numbers from Merritt Hawkins & Associates, a physician recruiting and consulting firm.

And the firm's projections for 2010 indicate that the average base salary for family physicians will be about $178,000 compared to $186,000 for CRNAs.

JOBS: NeuroMonitoring Jobs, Offers & Opportunities?

For those who are looking for Medical or health care related Jobs in UK, the following positions are available at the Mediplacements.com, tons of Doctors Position?.
Anatomical Pathology - (14)
Audiology - (163)
Biomedical Science - (246)
Cardiac Physiology - (274)
Dietetics - (285)
Hospital Doctors - (466)
Newborn Hearing - (24)
Nursing - (50)
ODP / Theatres - (84)
Pharmacy - (359)
Phlebotomy - (79)
Podiatry - (140)
Radiography - (145)
Speech And Language - (131)
Sterile Services - (46)

This section is to provide latest job postings via job links?. If you follow up on some or all of the links below, you will be able to realize that this is a very demanding and attractive field of applied neuroscience and surgical medicine. The first place to look for neuromonitoring jobs is the "neuromonitoring companies" directly (This Blog is the Only source for it, so browse those companies list here). A link is provided to each of the companies website, go ahead and explore

After you check out the Companies websites, the following are additional sources you must explore for possible opportunities.

1. ASNM (Society): American Society of Neurophysiological Monitoring

2. ABNM webite and Careers

3. ABRET JobPosting Service
4. ASET Employment Exchange
5. Medopps: Medical Career Opportunities
6. American Academy of Neurology
7.NatureJobs.com

8. ISIN: International Society of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring

(career page is not ready yet! but in the making, look at the site)

9.SFN: Society for Neuroscience

Job Updates: 02/25/2010

Check the latest ASNM.org site for these Jan-Feb 2010 Jobs

For companies to Post Jobs

To post a career opportunity please email us at:

info@asnm.org

Intraoperative Neuromonitoring: The Credentialing Organizations in USA.

The following three organizations in USA specialize in organizing and putting up policies on neuromonitoring practices, these organizations also run the credentialing exams for techs and professionals in the IONM field.
1. ABRET:- American Board of Registration of Electroencephalographic and Evoked Potential Technologists

2. ABNM:- American Board of Neurophysiologic Monitoring
3.ASNM:- American Society of Neurophysiological Monitoring
The following Data and Numbers are subject to change as it is dynamic over period of time, but in the range of change of some smaller figures, not that significant?.
Number of Diplomats, CNIMs & Techs credentialed so far since the inception of credentialing in the IONM field.

How Many Technologists Have Been Credentialed by ABRET?

How many Diplomats have been credentialed by ABNM?

World-wide since 1964 ABRET has credentialed

4198 EEG Technologists
968 Evoked Potential Technologists
1557 Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring Technologists

Number of Diplomats, D-ABNM certified so far:

From 10/16/99 to 05/04/2008
*125, D-ABNM
All these numbers recent past, so not today's numbers, check the appropriate source for correct figures as of today?.

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Friday, November 19, 2010

Sentient settles for $2.7 million in alleged Medicare fraud case

Hunt Valley firm admits no error, says issues occurred under previous owner By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun

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