The United States has intervened in a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging that Satilla Regional Medical Center in Waycross, Ga., and Najam Azmat, MD, submitted claims for medically substandard and unnecessary services to Medicare and Medicaid, according to a Department…
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Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that four healthcare organizations have recently selected its ProVation software for various healthcare technology needs, according to several news releases by Wolters Kluwer.
Georganna Howell is the administrator of Greenspring Surgery Center in Baltimore, part of OrthoMaryland.
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care has announced its new Officers for 2010-2011, according to an AAAHC news release.
While the new ban on physician-owned hospitals prevents Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota from expanding, Sanford Health is building its own $78 million heart hospital to take away market share, according to a report by the Argus Leader.
Hoots Memorial Hospital in Yadkinville, N.C., will be sold to Kansas City, Mo.-based HMC/CAH Consolidated for $1.6 million, according to a report by the Winston-Salem Journal.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board is proposing to change healthcare accounting standards so that reports on charity care would be based on direct and indirect costs of providing the care.
Donald Berwick, MD, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, has been formally nominated as CMS administrator, according to a release by the White House.
In Aug. 2009, a laptop belonging to an employee of Blue Cross/Blue Shield was stolen from a car in Chicago. While laptops are stolen in the United States all of the time (every 12 seconds, according to FBI and insurance…
Here are four statistics about pain management in ASCs, according to SDI Health. 1. Pain management was among the top five surgical specialties found in singe-specialty ASCs, representing 5 percent of the total single-specialty ASC pool. Pain management followed gastroenterology…