The Elective Boost is part of a wider health reform strategy backed by the Government’s $30 billion annual investment in ...

The funding includes $834m (A$1.27b) for the Surgery Connect programme. The Australian government is set to invest $1.2b (A$1 ...

An extra 21,000 operations will be performed over the next year as the Government spends more on private hospitals. Health ...

Elective surgery is a medical procedure scheduled in advance because it does not involve an emergency. Frequently, they are not a medical necessity. Examples include knee replacements or nose jobs.

Some hospitals and surgery centers continue to conduct elective surgeries amid the COVID-19 crisis, defying federal requests and state bans seeking to stop the nonessential procedures even as ...

In the first three months of this year, 8,587 patients were forced to wait longer than the time clinically recommended for ...

The new study, published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Surgery, analyzed data from the 2016-2019 National Inpatient Sample database on 12,422 hospitalizations after 11 types of major elective ...

Kai Giesen's wisdom teeth surgery was supposed to happen in March. Then it got pushed to mid-May. Then, June. When Giesen, 26, finally arrived for the surgery, he was told to wait in his car until ...

Elective-surgery patients are also not used to seeing people all over the hospital wearing masks, Turner says, from the greeter at the front door to the lab person drawing blood to the cafeteria ...

When it comes to surgery, the term “elective” has gotten some negative press, especially in the medical and surgical worlds. One could argue that many surgeries would fall into this category.

If you think your surgery is completely elective and you don’t mind postponing, discuss this as well. It is unclear when elective surgeries will be rescheduled, and there will be a backlog of cases.

And if your elective surgery is optional, you'll probably pay the full price yourself, while insurance will pay for some of the cost for medically necessary elective surgeries. Surgery. Approximate ...