Florida authorities report that 34 pain patients treated just in 2011 by Joseph Hernandez, MD, are dead and they are considering pressing charges against him for those deaths, according to a report by ABC News.
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Bariatric surgery was not significantly associated with decreased mortality in a study of mostly male VA patients in the Journal of the American Medical Association, according to a news release by the U.S. Air Force.
In the past two decades, U.S. medical device and diagnostic equipment prices have risen at less than half the rate of overall prices and less than one quarter the rate of prices for medical goods and services, according to a…
An oncologist and his wife, both from Lakewood, Wash., have been charged with 20 counts of healthcare fraud and related charges for participation in an alleged scheme to overbill healthcare programs for medicine administered to patients, according to a news…
The owner of a fraudulent physical therapy company in Lakeland, Fla., has pled guilty for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare, according to a news release from the Department of Justice. Jorge Zamora, owner of Dynamic Therapy, pled…
The Illinois Department of Public Health has reported that Illinois hospitals reported fewer healthcare-associated infections in 2010 than reported in 2009, according to an IDPH news release. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on Illinois hospital infections.
Susan Hare, MD, an internal medicine and pediatrics physician from Tilton, N.H., has been slapped with nearly $88,000 in fines due to a wide range of "professional misconduct," according to a Boston Globe news report.
Amerinet, a national healthcare group purchasing organization, has announced it has signed an agreement with TIDI Products for medical surgical protective apparel.
In June, the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare reported that despite intense efforts to curb wrong-site surgery, the adverse event still occurs approximately 40 times a week nationwide. Wrong-site surgery — which includes wrong procedure, wrong patient, wrong side…
Tim Shannon, vice president of operations for Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners, discusses 10 ways surgery centers can profit from ENT while improving patient safety and satisfaction.