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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.
Shawn Lunney is vice president of sales and marketing for GMD in Gig Harbor, Wash., which develops generic medical devices.
Thomas Wherry, MD, principal for Total Anesthesia Solutions and consulting medical director for Health Inventures, discusses six ways surgery center administrators can ensure clinical quality during a transition between anesthesia providers.
Tyson Cobb, MD, a hand and orthopedic surgeon at Orthopaedic Specialists in Davenport, Iowa, has been cited by the Iowa Board of Medicine for wrong-site surgery and other violations, according to a Quad-City Times report.
Parvez Dara, MD, an oncologist from Toms River, N.J., has had his medical license revoked after 29 of his patients tested positive for Hepatitis B, according to a Statehouse Bureau report.
Pleading guilty to misbranding one of its heart drugs, Johnson & Johnson’s Scios unit has agreed to pay an $85 million fine, according to a Bloomberg report. Scios was charged in July with misbranding its drug, Natrecor, one of the…
The New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers has initiated a letter writing campaign to request changes to Proposal 163, the new personal injury protection regulations proposed by the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI), according to Jeffrey…
Ansell Limited, a provider of protection solutions, has announced it has been recognized for the company's contribution through the Power of PINK Program to Susan G. Komen for the Cure in a personal letter from Komen Founder and CEO Nancy…