Medline, one of the nation's largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of healthcare products, has announced it has been named to the list of "100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare" for 2010 by Becker's ASC Review and Becker's Hospital…
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Five individuals, including a former hospital administrator and medical staff, in Florida were arrested after state law enforcement officials charged them with various felonies related to healthcare fraud, according to a news release from the office of Florida Attorney General…
Two Vermont caregivers were sentenced to time in prison and ordered to pay restitution for Medicaid fraud, according to a news release from the office of Attorney General William H. Sorrell.
Alicia Narvaez and Edgar Narvaez, a former husband and wife living in Texas, were sentenced to time in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution for defrauding more than $400,000 from programs funded by Medicaid and the Social Security Administration,…
Teva Pharmaceuticals will pay $27 million to settle allegations of Medicaid fraud revealed by a whistleblower, according to a news release from Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum.
In June, the newest Laser Spine Institute facility, located in Philadelphia, achieved accreditation from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC). The facility worked from day one toward the accreditation survey and achieved full accreditation three months after opening,…
Read about how a Colorado ASC partnered with Access MediQuip, one of the nation's largest providers of outsourced implant surgery management solutions, and LaClaro, a revenue cycle software company specializing in the ASC market, to improve the profitability of its…
Where air quality standards are applied to surgery facilities, they are based on requirements of the applicable State Health Department — almost always in relation to licensed healthcare facilities. CMS itself does not reference any air quality standard for facilities…
Demystifying software updates and upgradesHow would you define a medical equipment software update? How about a software upgrade? Answering these questions isn't so simple – it's difficult to define software updates versus upgrades because the answer varies based on the…
Four North Carolina providers are competing to receive a certificate of need to develop a single-specialty, two-OR ASC in the Charlotte region, according to the Charlotte Business Journal.