Here are 10 recently announced reports about surgery centers opening or under development by hospitals and health systems.
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Researchers have developed and validated a system that could improve post-operative care by measuring patient recovery from surgery with general anesthesia, according to the study abstract published in the October issue of Anesthesiology.
A former St. Louis-area internist has pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his billing practices and has agreed to pay part of a $1.6 million settlement, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch news report.
ELA Medical, a Plymouth, Minn.-based medical device maker, has reached a tentative $10 million settlement with the federal government to settle allegations of its involvement in an alleged kickback scheme, according to a Mass Device news report.
A study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association found a considerable proportion of patients with advanced cancer continue to undergo cancer screening tests, which researchers say likely do not provide added benefit to the patients, according to…
The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, a Virginia audit and review body, has released an interim report on a study it conducted on Medicaid fraud occurring in the state, according to a JLAC briefing.
In a letter written to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), small medical device and pharmaceutical companies as well as small business distributors are attesting to the importance of group purchasing organizations as…
Here are five regulatory and operational issues currently affecting the future of Arizona ASCs, according to Stuart Katz, executive director of Tucson Orthopaedic Surgery Center and an Arizona Ambulatory Surgery Center Association member.
Hospitals are on pace in 2010 to implement slightly more mass layoffs than the record year of 2009 and substantially more employees would be affected, according to a report by American Medical News.
Ralph Gambardella, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and president of Kerlan-Jobe Surgery Center in Los Angeles, discusses five key leadership roles essential to the success of an ASC and describes the characteristics necessary for these positions to find success.