Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, has stopped using cats to train physicians to insert breathing tubes in premature babies, according to a Columbus Dispatch report.
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Twelve California hospitals have been penalized with varying fines for failing to meet licensing requirements that caused or was likely to cause serious injury or death to patients, according to a department news release.
State regulators have fined Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock, Calif., $50,000 for failing to follow safety procedures for a drug administered to surgical patients, according to a Modesto Bee report.
A recent webinar, "Maximizing Reimbursement for ASCs," discussed how surgery centers can improve revenue cycle processes to achieve appropriate reimbursement. The presenter, Caryl Serbin of SourceMedical Revenue Cycle Solutions, discussed each step of the revenue cycle process and shared tips…
Specialty choice can make or break an ASC, depending on reimbursement rates, supply costs, case volume and availability of market share. Here is a list of the six "best" specialties for ASCs, based on several advisors' assessments, ranked in order…
N.J. Assemblyman Herb Conaway Jr., MD (D-Burlington County), the only physician in the New Jersey Legislature, has introduced legislation that would require licensing for one-operating room surgery centers, according to Jeffrey Shanton, chair of the advocacy and legislative affairs committee…
After the Florida legislature passed a statewide crackdown on pain clinics, Sarasota County commissioners considered further measures against pill mills, according to a report by Sarasota Patch.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed a bill that bars physicians from dispensing painkillers in their offices, imposes criminal penalties for physicians who overprescribe them, creates more standards for pain clinics and authorizes a prescription-drug monitoring database, according to a…
A preliminary sequencing analysis has found that the Escherichia coli outbreak that has killed 18 people in Europe is the result of a new E. coli strain, according to a report by Medpage Today.
The former executive vice president and general counsel for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has been accused of embezzling $1.7 million from the facility, according to a Reuters report. Roosevelt Hairston Jr. allegedly hid the theft by creating shell companies, opening…