Excela Health may face 72 lawsuits filed by coronary patients who claim two of the Greensburg, Pa.-based system’s physicians performed unnecessary heart surgeries. Read the full story at Becker’s Hospital Review.
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A former cardiologist from Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md., is on trial over allegations that he unnecessarily implanted hundreds of stents into patients’ healthy arteries. Read the full story at Becker’s Hospital Review.
CPT copyright 2010 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. The following article is written by Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC, president of Ellis Medical Consulting. When the laminectomy/laminotomy is…
The owners of a healthcare business in Palos Hills, Ill., and a suspended podiatrist were arrested yesterday and charged with illegally accepting more than $1.5 million in fraudulent Medicare payments, according to a local ABC 7 News report. Bahir Haj…
Here are 10 recent Becker's Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control reports on sharps safety and OSHA which include tools you can download for use by your organization and resources you can use to improve your sharps safety and…
Ann S. Deters, CEO and Founder of Vantage Outsourcing, discusses six ways surgery centers can perform profitable and efficient cataract surgery.
A woman has been awarded more than $525,000 in a lawsuit that alleged clinicians at Lower Bucks Hospital in Bucks County, Pa., had acted negligently when they left a sponge in her abdomen during surgery, according to a Courier Times…
Anne Roberts is administrator of Surgery Center of Reno (Nev.).
Johns Hopkins Medicine has developed a number of free, downloadable resources to help improve hand hygiene at its organizations, with one such resource a hand hygiene observations form.
Five surgery center industry leaders discuss the biggest challenges for surgery center administrators in 2011.