The Nevada Supreme Court heard arguments Monday from lawyers from Teva Parenteral Medicines and Baxter Healthcare, following a 2010 jury decision that ordered the companies to pay a combined $500 million in punitive damages for allegedly distributing overly large vials…
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Lolita M. Jones, RHIA, CCS, independent coding and billing consultant, discusses six initial steps ambulatory surgery centers should take to prepare for the transition to ICD-10.
Charles Denham, MD, of the Texas Medical Institute of Technology, reflects on what healthcare providers can do to intensify efforts toward increasing patient safety.
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Mike Madewell, administrator of Panama City (Fla.) Surgery Center, a Nueterra facility, identifies three ways ambulatory surgery centers can improve relations with the surgeon's office.
With two federal initiatives to measure ambulatory surgery center quality expected in the next few years, the outlines of those programs may come into focus this year as rulemaking gets under way, according to David Shapiro, MD, chairman of the…
Physicians have been denied claims for using a Kalypto Medical negative pressure wound therapy pump because they were unaware that a contractor assigned it a miscellaneous Medicare code, according to a Star Tribune report.
Southeast Pain Care, based in Charlotte, N.C., will be taking over Rowan Regional Medical Center's pain clinic after the hospital announced it would terminate its ownership of the facility, according to a Salisbury Post news report.
Multiple pain clinics in Florida and Texas have been forced to shut down by law enforcement officials, according to several news report.
Lindy Rachal, MD, a physician double board-certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology, will be joining the medical staff at Hill Country Memorial Hospital in Fredericksburg, Texas, according to a Mason County News report.