South Carolina's Gov. Nikki Haley said the state will not accept millions of dollars in federal funding intended to help South Carolina set up a health insurance exchange, according to a Miami Herald report.
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HHS' Partnership for Patients and National Quality Forum will present a free patient safety webinar on preventing pressure ulcers and falls on Sept. 9 at 2:30 p.m., EDT.
The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority has issued a new advisory report (pdf) which analyzes medication error reports submitted by ambulatory surgery facilities to the Authority, according to a Philadelphia Business Journal report.
If surgery center leaders can identify and add an up-and-coming procedure to their list of approved procedures prior to their competitors doing such, they may be able to corner the market and profit tremendously before the surgery becomes widespread. Lori…
Ambulatory Alliances, a business brokerage and investment banking firm serving ambulatory surgery centers, has announced the sale of the NewHope Dallas surgery center to a strategic buyer, according to a news release.
Carillon Surgery Center in St. Petersburg, Fla., has been granted full accreditation by the American College of Surgeons Bariatric Surgery Center Network Accreditation Program, according to a news release.
The owner of Memorial Medical Supply, a Houston durable medical equipment business, has been sentenced to 97 months in prison for his role in a Medicare fraud scheme, according to a news release from the Department of Justice. Sunny Robinson…
The parents of a now-deceased baby were awarded an $11.4 million reward after a jury found Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston guilty of negligence, according to a Boston Herald report. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review…
Medical testing provider Laboratory Corp. of America will pay $49.5 million to the state of California to settle a lawsuit alleging illegal overcharges to the state’s medical program for the poor, according to a news release from Attorney General Kamala…
Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital has submitted to state regulators a corrective action plan after it was cited for the way it handled a patient's miscarriage, according to a Herald Tribune report.