Hospitals have two ways to collaborate with physicians for outpatient surgery centers, says Matt Searles, a managing partner at Merritt Healthcare in Somers, N.Y. They can retain their existing HOPD or build a new one, authorizing physicians to manage it…
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Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital and Orthopaedic & Neurosurgery Specialists, based in Greenwich, have announced a joint-venture ambulatory surgery center agreement.
Healthcare experts from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Safe Injection Practices Coalition and other organizations spoke at a teleconference on safe injection practices, urging healthcare professionals to do more in order to protect patients from infection and injury.
Dipak Desai, a gastroenterologist who has surrendered his medical license after hepatitis C outbreaks at his clinics, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Las Vegas on conspiracy and healthcare fraud charges, according to a Las Vegas Review…
Robert Westergard is the CFO of Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America. 1. Q: Why do you think benchmarking is critical to ambulatory surgery center success? Robert Westergard: We feel benchmarking is a critical part of running an ASC well…
The overall rate of infections reported by Pennsylvania hospitals decreased by approximately 6 percent from 2009-2010, according to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority's executive summary of its 2010 Annual Report.
Houston-based Northstar Healthcare will acquire certain ownership interests in four physician-owned radiation therapy cancer treatment centers from radiation oncologist Chris Phan, MD, according to a news release.
Regent Surgical Health celebrates its 10-year anniversary this month (April 2011). Tom Mallon, CEO of Regent, discusses the milestone, how the company became and has remained successful and what he thinks will be necessary to allow him to reflect on…
A chiropractor who owned a clinic in Maywood, Ill., for more than 10 years has been sentenced to 70 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud, according to an ABC 7 Chicago report. Chiropractor Darwin Minnis, DC,…
A judge has rejected a plea agreement that would have sent Chicago surgeon Mark Weinberger, MD, — nicknamed “The Nose Doctor” — to prison for four years on 22 counts of fraud, according to a Chicago Tribune report. U.S. District…