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…
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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.
The following is written by Carol Ciluffo, vice president of revenue cycle management for PINNACLE III. Patient balances continue to rise due to higher co-payments, deductibles and co-insurance, making efforts to collect patient payments up-front all the more critical.…
London-based AstraZeneca will face a Sept. 2012 trial over a lawsuit filed by Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. State officials claim the pharmaceutical company defrauded the state’s Medicaid program by failing to outline a drug’s risks, according to a Bloomberg…
A new study has found women are more likely than men to survive major GI surgery, according to a news release by UC San Diego Health System.