Houston-based Northstar Healthcare announced that its The Palladium for Surgery-Houston facility settled a dispute with one of its largest payors, a major private health insurance provider, according to a Northstar news release.
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Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg, Idaho, has purchased North Fork Surgery Center for $1.8 million, according to a report in the Rexburg Standard Journal.
The Virginia Department of Health is holding a public hearing at 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 6 on two proposed ASCs in Isle of Wight County and has invited the public to comment, according to a report in the Daily Press.
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While health insurers claim they spend 87 cents out of every premium dollar on healthcare, the actual amount is "significantly lower," according to a release by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.).
Pacific Surgery Center in Poulsbo, Wash., upgraded its core practice management systems to solutions from HSTpathways and ZirMed and experienced reduced bottlenecks despite volume increases of 15 percent, according to a ZirMed news release.
Covington, Ky.-based Omnicare, the nation's largest nursing home pharmacy, will pay $98 million, and IVAX Pharmaceuticals of Weston, Fla., a drug manufacturer, will pay $14 million to settle false claims allegations, which allege the companies engaged in a kickback scheme,…
A multi-center study published in the November issue of Ophthalmology suggests that cataract surgery can improve vision in patients with any stage of age-related macular degeneration, according to a report by the American Academy of Ophthalmology.