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Ron Brank, group vice president of finance for Symbion in Nashville, Tenn., reviews the advantages and disadvantages of operating several ambulatory surgery centers in one geographic market.
Ohio's Department of Health has cited MetroHealth in Cleveland for lack of policies that would protect patients from abuse, according to a WKYC report.
Access to high-quality healthcare is a struggle for many rural Americans, according to a recent report published by UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform & Modernization. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on healthcare access and quality.
A whistleblower lawsuit in which the government has chosen not to intervene claims Denver-based DaVita, a kidney dialysis company, used larger than necessary vials of medicine knowing that Medicare would pay for the unused portion if it were deemed “unavoidable…
In the past year, New Jersey has recovered more than $116 million believed to have been fraudulently billed to the state Medicaid program, according to a Forbes report. The state’s rate of Medicaid fraud has increased, as it found nearly…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides a free, downloadable high-quality poster for placement throughout a facility to show bugs that can lead to infection and may be found on unclean healthcare worker's hands.
Chicago — The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, the national association for surgery centers, and ASC Communications, publisher of Becker's ASC Review, announce AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions has been named a sponsor for the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference, to be…
The Premier Safety Institute, which is a part of Premier, a healthcare alliance of more than 2,300 U.S. hospitals and 64,000 other healthcare sites, offers a free, downloadable and adaptable OSHA bloodborne pathogen exposure prevention checklist.