Iowa hospital officials have expressed concern about a proposed bill that would weaken the state's Certificate of Need policy and they feel make it easier for the development of new ambulatory surgery centers, according to a report from the Omaha…
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An outpatient surgery center in Trinity, Fla., is included in a new medical office building under development by New Port Richey, Fla.-based Community Hospital, the future Medical Center of Trinity, according to a news release from the organization.
AmSurg has reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 2010, highlighted by an 11 percent increase in revenues, 9 percent increase in procedures and 2 percent increase in average revenue per procedure for the…
Christopher Holden, CEO of AmSurg, expressed his concerns about the economy's impact on his company and other ambulatory surgery center operators in a report from The Tennessean.
Wolters Kluwer Health has announced Riverside (Calif.) Community Hospital has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding.
The General Hospital Corporation and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, representing Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, has agreed to pay the U.S. government $1 million to settle allegations that the hospital system violated the HIPAA privacy rule, according to a news…
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Anesthesiologists may face an increased demand for their expertise in homicide investigations and vigilance in preventing drug diversion, according to a case report published in the March issue of Anesthesiology.
Unionized nurses from Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine, are claiming the hospital's report about its staffing levels is inaccurate, incomplete and not in keeping with nationally accepted standards, according to a Bangor Daily news report.