As Kentucky gets closer to authorizing optometrists to perform certain eye surgeries, the actual scope of their new privileges was outlined by a legislative committee that recently allowed the authorization to proceed, according to a Glasgow Daily Times report.
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Several members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee called for tightening a 1938 law so that the FDA could improve the safety of imported drugs, according to a Star-Ledger report.
As authorities clamp down on abuse of prescription painkillers and similar substances, more physicians are receiving criminal charges for involvement in fatal overdoses of patients, according to a Reuters report.
The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has recognized 21 endoscopy units for following the society's guidelines on privileging, quality assurance, endoscope reprocessing and infection control, according to an ASGE news release (pdf).
Florida Gov. Rick Scott will allow some state workers to choose between two HMOs instead of one, backing down from a plan that would have restricted all workers to one HMO per county starting in Jan. 2012, according to a…
A jury cleared two anesthesiologists on Wednesday in the case of a patient who died after surgery to repair a broken bone, according to a Gazette Net report.
West Virginia lawmakers are studying whether to allow policyholders to require that insurers pay their providers directly, according to a Houston Chronicle report.
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Healthcare providers are increasingly joining a movement to simplify difficult-to-understand patient bills, hoping to increase collections lost when patients do not know how much they owe, according to a Healthcare Finance News report.
First Surgical Partners, a company that provides non-emergency surgeries through its two ambulatory surgery centers and a general acute-care hospital, has provided an update on its current operations, according to a MarketWatch report.