The Joint Commission has identified the top five Joint Commission requirements that were most frequently identified as "not compliant" for the first half of 2011 for accredited organizations and certified programs, including ambulatory care and hospitals, according to the Sept.…
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The owner of a durable medical equipment company in Weslaco, Texas, has been convicted of three counts of healthcare fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, according to a news release from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Prosecutors said…
Boulder (Colo.) Community Hospital is set to break ground on a new outpatient surgery center in Boulder, according to a Boulder County Business Report report.
The ambulatory surgery center community has been hoping that accountable care organizations, under pressure to save money, would steer more patients to lower-cost, high-quality ASCs, but so far it hasn't worked out that way, and Advocate Health Care's contract with…
Freestanding, single-specialty ambulatory surgery center located in Manhattan is seeking an experienced administrator to oversee the day-to-day operations.
Speaking to the Advanced Medical Technology Conference, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asked medical devicemakers for help on developing new user fees that she said could usher in the regulatory changes they seek, according to a Mass Device report.
A Florida pain physician who champions yoga to control pain has been indicted on federal charges of illegally prescribing the painkiller oxycodone, according to a St. Petersburg Times report.
As part of a weeklong international crackdown on sales of certain illegal drugs on the Internet, the FDA targeted 997 websites, sent warning letters to 717 sites and forced 578 of them to stop drug sales, according to a Manufacturing.net…
Douglas K. Rex, MD, a professor Indiana University School of Medicine, said colonoscopy may eventually be supplanted by another method as the dominant form of colon cancer screening, according to a General Surgery News report.
A Department of Veterans Affairs study found that current and former cocaine users had a 45 percent increased risk of glaucoma, mainly open-angle glaucoma, according to a Journal of Glaucoma report.