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Sarah Becker, RN, has been charged with bilking more than $15,000 from the federal Medicaid program over a two-year span, according to a Sheboygan Press news report.
Detroit Medical Center, which is expected to be acquired by Vanguard Health Systems tomorrow in a deal valued at $1.5 billion, will pay $30 million to the government for improper financial relationships it had with physicians, according to a CNBC…
New York State has adopted a regulatory amendment authorizing anesthesia providers in free-standing and hospital off-site ASCs to conduct post-anesthesia evaluations, according to a Healthcare Association of New York State release.
General anesthesia is more akin to going into a "reversible coma" than going to sleep, a Boston anesthesiologist argues in the Dec. 30, 2010 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, according to a Boston Globe report.
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St. Mary's Medical Center in Langhorne, Pa., has agreed to pay the United States $3.28 million to resolve claims the hospital improperly billed Medicare for inpatient admissions between Oct. 2001 and Sept. 2007, according to a news release by the…
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