Aidapak Services has announced it is conducting a nationwide voluntary recall of all repackaged pharmaceuticals after learning of the potential cross contamination of non-penicillin drug products repackaged in the same facility, according to a news release.
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The Office of Inspector General has announced $3.4 billion in new expected recoveries related to its investigations, audits and other probes, mostly related to Medicare and Medicaid, according to an OIG news release. These expected recoveries, which were announced in…
Healthmark Industries, which develops products for the sterilization, decontamination, storage and security of surgical instruments and other medical devices and accessories, has launched its latest free, online game focused on the reprocessing of trays and scopes in the sterile processing…
U.S. Representatives Pete Sessions (R-Texas), John Larson (D-Conn.), Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) introduced the Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2011 on Friday, according to an ASCA release.
Anesthesia information management companies Picis, GE Healthcare, Draeger, iMDsoft, Merge and Phillips will battle for market share over the next few years, as the anesthesia device market grows to an expected $4 billion in 2017, according to an iData Research…
On Wednesday, Colorado became the eighth state to set up a health insurance exchange for people shopping for lower rates, a federal requirement under healthcare reform, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has signed into law the Patient Safety Act of 2011, which allows the implementation of a prescription drug monitoring program aimed at stamping out prescription drug abuse, according to a Bryan County News report.
The American Academy of Pediatrics says healthcare providers must assume responsibility for patient outcomes, identify and report errors and adverse events and disseminate proven patient safety interventions to prevent errors and eliminate avoidable harm to pediatric patients, according to an…
The Senate declined on May 25 to consider a House-approved plan to cut U.S. spending by $4 trillion over the next decade, an initiative that would have involved significant changes to Medicare and Medicaid, according to an American Medical News…
The Florida Division of Administrative Hearings has recommended the state Board of Medicine dismiss a complaint against Enrique Puig, MD, a board-certified anesthesiologist based in Winter Haven, according to a Ledger report.