A Manhattan, N.Y.-based physician and eight others have been charged for allegedly distributing oxycodone pills through a Manhattan-based drug ring, according to a news release by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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An emergency room physician at Ogdensburg, N.Y.-based Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center has had his medical license revoked after being charged with fraudulently obtaining a medical license, gross negligence and incompetence, according to a Watertown Daily Times news report.
Medical Facilities Corp., which owns controlling interests in four specialty surgical hospitals, located in South Dakota and Oklahoma, as well as two ASCs in California, reported a strong second quarter in 2010, with profits of $2.5 million compared to a…
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced grant awards of $46 million, made available through the Affordable Care Act, to 45 states and the District of Columbia to help improve oversight of insurance rate hikes, according to an HHS news release.
Allegations of fraud by Solantic, a chain of Florida urgent care clinics owned in part by Florida Republican Gubernatorial Candidate and former HCA CEO Rick Scott, have been forwarded to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for possible…
Bill Gilbert, vice president of marketing, and Brice Voithofer, vice president of ASC and anesthesia services, for AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions, discuss the dangers of not regularly auditing dictated surgeons' reports.
The Ambulatory Surgery Foundation and Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States have announced the joint release of guidelines to help ASCs develop plans for properly transferring a patient who experiences malignant hyperthermia to an acute care hospital for extended…
Robin Fowler, MD, serves as medical director for the Interventional Spine and Pain Management ASC in Conyers, Ga., the flagship pain management ASC in Interventional Management Services' expanding chain of centers. In addition to his work with Interventional Spine and…
Here is a list of 20 ASCs performing more than 10,000 cases each year.
Healthwatch, the healthcare blog of The Hill, is the latest publication to report on a controversial study by Research Triangle Institute International, funded by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists and published in Health Affairs, claiming certified registered nurse anesthetists…