An Erie, Pa.-based anesthesiologist plead guilty to filing a false tax form and agreed to pay back taxes of $342,361 plus interest on Wednesday, according to an Erie Times-News report.
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Maine healthcare experts disagreed on Wednesday about the impact of legislation that would make significant changes to the state health insurance system, according to a Morning Sentinel report.
A new outpatient surgery center for San Juan Island, Wash., is included in development of PeaceHealth's new Peace Island Medical Center, according to a report from the Engineering News-Record.
Dr. Ivo Aaron Miller has joined the Center for Oral and Facial Surgery in Chattanooga and Ft. Oglethorpe, Tenn., according to a report from WTVC NewsChannel 9.
In the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recently published Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care, the CDC provides the following seven key recommendations for the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in ambulatory…
Recalled alcohol wipes responsible for at least two patient deaths may still be in use, according to a Journal Sentinel news report.
Dr. Henry Rosenberg, president of Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States, discusses preventing exposure for a malignant hyperthermia-susceptible patient to potent gas anesthetics that may trigger an MH episode in his latest blog entry on the MHAUS website.
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.
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…