The FDA's Office of Compliance has issued a letter to endoscope manufacturers regarding labeling on reusable medical devices that references the STERIS System 1 processor.
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Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Del., has agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle claims made by a whistleblower that the health system allegedly paid kickback to neurologists for referring patients to its Wilmington hospital, according to a report…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released updates to the availability of propofol injections on its Web site.
George Steven Kooshian, an AIDS physician based in La Quinta, Calif., was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to federal healthcare fraud charges for "subdosing" patients by administering doses of medicine that contained less than the…
ASCs Inc., an adviser for surgery centers, endoscopy centers and surgical hospitals, has announced the closing of an acquisition transaction for Mid-Peninsula Endoscopy Center in San Mateo, Calif.
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West Tennessee Healthcare in Jackson, Tenn., is relocating its multispecialty ASC to the six-hospital system's new physicians office tower, according to a release from West Tennessee Healthcare.
As hospitals and physicians offices become more involved in collecting charges from patients, it helps to understand how many have insurance policies, what their premiums are and what share of the premium they pay. Here the U.S. Agency for Healthcare…
A growing number of states require accreditors of office-based surgical facilities to evaluate practices in lieu of state inspections, according to a report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Committee on Ambulatory Surgical Care and the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia's…
Economic Research Institute reports the following estimated mean values for ophthalmologists' salaries.