Tops Market Pharmacy has paid the state of New York nearly $250,000 in restitution to resolve a Medicaid fraud case involving a former pharmacist in one of its Rochester stores, according to a Buffalo Business First report. The pharmacy, part…
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The U.S. laparoscopic device market is expected to reach more $4.1 billion in sales in 2011 and $7.5 billion by 2018, according to an iData Research news release.
Facing threats of a lawsuit by ophthalmologists and other MDs, a review panel in the Kentucky legislature has approved proposed regulations spelling out how optometrists can qualify to perform eye surgery, according to a Lexington Herald Leader report.
Michael Mahoney, chairman of Johnson & Johnson's medical device and diagnostics business, will become the new president of Boston Scientific on Oct. 17, with plans for him to take over the CEO post next year, according to a Boston Scientific…
Stewart Rendon, MD, director of metabolic and bariatric surgery at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California, said many teens could qualify for bariatric surgery, according to a Press-Enterprise report.
The Iowa City Ambulatory Surgical Center has received the 2010/2011 APEX Quality Award from CTQ Solutions, according to a news release from Surgical Management Professionals, which manages the ASC.
High levels of alcohol consumption are associated with increased risk of colorectal cancer, according to a Boston University Medical Center news release.
Healthcare experts at the second annual Missouri Health Literacy Summit discussed the importance of patient literacy and communication in maintaining positive outcomes and population health, according to a Columbia Daily Tribune report. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review…
Mercy Memorial Hospital System in Monroe, Mich., will incorporate a flu vaccine policy for employees, according to a Monroe News report.
The following article is written by Naomi Kuznets, PhD, senior director and general manager of the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement, and comes from the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement "IQI Insights" publication. It is copyrighted and being published with…