Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center, on Long Island, N.Y., has agreed to pay $2.92 million plus interest to settle allegations that the hospital inflated charges to obtain supplemental outlier payments.
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Nashville, Tenn.-based ASC operator AmSurg reported a 10-percent increase in revenue and a nearly 8-percent increase in net earnings for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2009, adding eight new centers during the three-month period.
Central New York Eye Physicians and Hudson Valley Family Practice have agreed to merge with Mid-Hudson Medical Group in Fishkill, N.Y., according to a report in the Poughkeepsie Journal.
A new study published in the March issue of Anesthesiology notes that low to moderate levels of inflammation could be an additional risk category for patients undergoing routine coronary artery bypass graft surgery, according to a news release from the…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health have announced an initiative designed to accelerate the process from scientific breakthrough to the availability of new, innovative medical therapies for patients, according to an FDA news release.
Olympus, a precision technology leader, has introduced the GIF-H180J scope, a 9.9-mm gastroscope that delivers HDTV image quality and Narrow Band Imaging for upper gastrointestinal screening, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, according to an Olympus news release.
The Shavano Park (Texas) City Council has approved a plan by First Surgical Partners to develop an ASC in the city, according to a report by SA Communities.
B. Braun Medical has announced that its Infusion Pumps, DoseTrac Infusion Management Software and DoseLink Interfaces have successfully completed key portions of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel, a federally-recognized Interoperability Specifications test, according to a B. Braun news release.
A practice assistant in the ENT Department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston is pleading guilty to embezzling more than $1 million from the hospital, according to a release from the FBI.
With an automatic 21.2 percent Medicare fee cut looming next Monday, the AMA is showing members how to opt out of Medicare's set reimbursements and become a "non-participating" physician, according to a report on the AMA Web site.