Executive Vice President , LSU System

Colon & Rectal Surgery

Frank Opelka works in the field of Colon & Rectal Surgery. He over the years received 1 awards: "Fellow (FACS)". Frank Opelka is also a published physician. He has 44 publication published. The most recent publication is: Long-term survival after treatment of malignant colonic polyps.

Publications

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• It Is More Than Payment Accountability: It Is About Improvement, Too.
• Performance measurement and optimal care for surgical patients.
• The Surgical Quality Alliance.
• Social networking in health care: Surgeons and their patients.
• Office financial evaluation and management.
• Understanding pay for performance.
• The use of intraservice work per unit of time (IWPUT) and the building block method (BBM) for the calculation of surgical work.
• Colonic diverticulosis and diverticular hemorrhage.
• The safety and efficacy of the artificial bowel sphincter for fecal incontinence: results from a multicenter cohort study.
• A decade of decline: an analysis of Medicare reimbursement for vascular surgical procedures.
• The ACS Surgical Quality Alliance: specialty societies improving quality for the surgical patient.
• Impact of CT-guided drainage in the treatment of diverticular abscesses: size matters.
• Surgeon compensation: "Pay for performance," the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, the Surgical Care Improvement Program, and...
• Transformational change in health care: identifying the current state and future state.
• In their own words. Surgeon representatives discuss legislative and regulatory issues. Part II.
• Documentation guidelines for evaluation and management services.
• Long-term survival after treatment of malignant colonic polyps.
• Treatment of colorectal and ileoanal anastomotic sinuses.
• Outpatient bowel preparation for elective colon resection.
• Predictive value of technetium Tc 99m-labeled red blood cell scintigraphy for positive angiogram in massive lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
• Perineal repair of rectal prolapse.
• Chronic perioperative steroids and colonic anastomotic healing in rats.
• Perioperative steroid use in colorectal patients. Results of a survey.
• Postpolypectomy colonic hemorrhage.
• Colostomy closure. Ochsner Clinic experience.
• Colon surveillance after colorectal cancer surgery.
• Anoscopic-assisted insertion of end-to-end anastomosing staplers.
• Colonoscopic follow-up of adenomas and colorectal cancer.
• Fecal seepage and soiling: a problem of rectal sensation.
• The role of dual radionuclide scintigraphy in the preoperative localization of abnormal parathyroid glands.
• Peutz-Jeghers syndrome. A call for intraoperative enteroscopy.
• Diminutive colonic polyps: an indication for colonoscopy.
• Colonoscopy in the patient requiring anticoagulation.
• Restorative proctocolectomy: Ochsner Clinic experience.
• In their own words: practice expenses and the RBRVS revisited.
• Colonoscopic perforations.
• A critical appraisal of treatment for T3N0 colon cancer.
• Effect of previous surgery on abdominal opening time.
• Significance of a normal surveillance colonoscopy in patients with a history of adenomatous polyps.
• The natural history of isolated rectosigmoid adenomatous polyps: is flexible sigmoidoscopy a safe alternative for surveillance?
• Discontinuous appendiceal involvement in ulcerative colitis: pathology and clinical correlation.
• Incidence of small-bowel obstruction and adhesiolysis after open colorectal and general surgery.
• In their own words. Practice expenses and the resource-based relative value scale.

Schools

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• Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Chicago Medical School

• Walter Reed Amc

• Eisenhower Amc

• Ochsner Clin

• Ochsner Foundation Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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• GHI PPO
• MultiPlan PPO
• PHCS Network PPO

Awards

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• Fellow (FACS)

Education

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• Ochsner Clinic Foundation
• Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

Hospital

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• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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