Jacksonville, Fla.-based American Sleep Medicine will pay $15.3 million to settle accusations it billed Medicare, TRICARE and the Railroad Retirement Medicare Program for services not eligible for reimbursements, according to ENews Park Forest.
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The Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., has named two joint chief medical officers, anesthesiologist David Wessel, MD, and Denice Cora-Bramble, MD.
Medicare Part B carrier Noridian overturned its decision to deny payment for monitored cataract anesthesia without proven medical necessity, according to the Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society.
Acquiring a multidrug-resistant organism from a room previously occupied by a patient with MDRO is less likely when the room was disinfected with hydrogen peroxide vapor than with standard methods, according to a study in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Changes in the color of generic antiepileptic drugs increase the likelihood patients will fail to refill a prescription, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine, formerly Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Using a 70 percent alcohol-impregnated disinfection cap decreased central line-associated bloodstream infections 52 percent compared with standard scrubbing protocol, according to a study in the American Journal of Infection Control reported by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and…
Two large physician groups in New York have merged to form OrthoNY, according to a report from The Business Review.
Bremerton, Wash.-based Harrison Medical Center's planned orthopedic hospital in Silverdale will open in September, according to a report from the Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Office of E-Health Standards and Services will delay enforcement of operating rules on electronic exchange of information that would make providers eligibility for health plan and healthcare claim status for three months, according…
New quality reporting requirements for ambulatory surgery centers took effect Jan. 1, 2013, requiring ASCs to place quality data G-codes on Medicare claims where Medicare is the primary or secondary payor, according to an ASCA report.