Given the number of federal healthcare fraud prosecutions from the past eight months, the total is expected to expand by 85 percent over last year due to the Obama administration’s intense focus on fraud-fighting, according to a USA Today report.…
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In June, Reps. Pete Sessions (R-TX) and John Larson (D-CT) and Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mike Crapo (R-ID) introduced the Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality and Access Act of 2011 into the U.S. Congress. It has since been endorsed by…
Bernard McDonnell, DO, a retired physician and current surveyor for Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program, identifies 15 questions surgery centers and other providers need to ask themselves to help ensure an effective and compliant quality program.
In early August, a story was published stating the Illinois Department of Public Health had issued citations for infection control problems to two-thirds of same-day surgery centers in Illinois inspected during the past year. The story documented many of the…
Here are reports featuring 16 downloadable patient safety and staff education tools which were added to the Becker's Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control Database of Downloadable Patient Safety Tools & Resources during the week of Aug. 22-Aug. 26.
Need an update on comings and goings in the surgery center industry? Here are 10 must-read articles from the week of Aug. 22.Good news for surgery centers — HHS made another step toward overturning CMS' same-day surgery limitation.
A family practice in Dayton, Ohio, has been fined $10,500 as part of a settlement with OSHA relating to violations in areas including sharps safety, infection control and employee training, according to a Dayton Daily News report.
Nap Gary, COO of Regent Surgical Health in Westchester, Ill., lists the top five vulnerabilities of surgery centers in the next few years.
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association is urging ASCs to submit comments to CMS to help efforts to delay the required data submission included in the CMS proposal for a mandatory ASC quality reporting program, according to a news release from…
The National Transitions of Care Coalition Advisory Task Force has published a free, downloadable transitions of care checklist.