The owner of a medical supply company in Brunswick, Fla., has pleaded guilty to federal charges of using his business as a front in a multi-million dollar Medicare fraud scheme, according to a Florida Times-Union report. Arthur Manasarian pleaded guilty…
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Here are top 10 most frequently reviewed sentinel event categories by The Joint Commission for Jan. 1-second quarter of 2011.
Here are the top 10 most-read articles published in July by the Becker's Healthcare family of publications — Becker's ASC Review, Becker's Hospital Review and Becker's Orthopedic, Spine & Pain Management Review.
A study, published in the August issue of Anesthesiology, reveals improvement in patients with septic shock who were treated with steroid therapy, according to news brief published by the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
A new study conducted by SK&A, a Cegedim company, reveals the average drug sample acceptance rate among physicians is 77 percent, meaning about 23 percent of all physicians do not accept samples, according to an SK&A news release.
A new study published in the August issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the scientific journal of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, shows that the use of retroflexion technique during colonoscopy in the right side of the colon improves polyp…
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association has indicated that if the congressional committee charged under the Budget Control Act of 2011 to identify means of reducing the country's deficit by $1.5 trillion between 2012 and 2021 fails in its responsibility, the…
B. Braun has entered into an exclusive alliance with CME America to distribute its BodyGuard line of electronic infusion pumps, according to a company news release.
Rajiv Chopra, principal and CFO of The C/N Group, recently discussed budgeting best practices with SURGiStrategies.
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association has announced it has created a dedicated webpage to track updates and developments concerning the ASC Quality and Access Act of 2011, according to a report in its ASCA Government Affairs Update.