Lance E. Faulkner from Tecumseh, Okla., has been indicted by a federal grand jury for healthcare fraud in connection with the sales of prosthetic limbs and components, according to a Department of Justice news release. Mr. Faulkner owned and operated…
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Tait Shanafelt, MD, a hematologist at the Mayo Clinic, reflects on an increasing body of literature that suggests physicians and other healthcare professionals are "burning out" due to a wide variety of reasons, including increasing pressures to meet productivity requirements…
Some drug manufacturers are lobbying in support of legislative proposals in states across the country that, if enacted, would limit full utility of electronic prescribing, according to a Pharmaceutical Care Management Association news release.
Four specialty societies have released a joint statement regard the American Board of Surgeons' recently established guideline on surgery resident training in endoscopy.
Whidbey General Hospital in Coupeville, Wash., will forego approximately $1.7 million in Medicare billings due to Stark Law violations, according to a Seattle Post Intelligencer report. The hospital had to hold off billing Medicare from those physician’s involved in the…
Florida Pain Clinic Society has expressed its opposition to Governor Rick Scott's proposal to repeal the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, which the society says is the only way to effectively enforce prohibition against "doctor shopping," according to a FPCS news…
The following article is written by Bo Hjorth, vice president business development for Regent Surgical Health. Hospitals and physicians are both struggling with challenges related to competition, reform and the economy that are difficult to tackle on their own, but…
Many ambulatory surgery centers assign a single staff member or just a few employees to oversee performance improvement programs. Lakes Surgery Center in West Bloomfield, Mich., went to the opposite extreme: involving ever member of the roughly 40-person staff in…
Construction has been completed on a new same-day surgery center within Rush Oak Park (Ill.) Hospital, according to a news release from Reed Construction.
The Joint Commission has published a new report which describes the rationale behind new Joint Commission standards, National Patient Safety Goals and performance measures.