Hospital-acquired infections are a prevalent, and sometimes deadly, problem that healthcare leaders continue to try to address, according to Consumer Reports.
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The much anticipated Anthem-Cigna antirust case is going to trial today, Nov. 21, 2016, in Washington, D.C., bringing the proposed merger's impact on the employer market to the test, according to CNBC.
Officials arrested Andrew Davenport, chief executive of Pennsylvania-based Philidor Rx Services, a mail-order pharmacy, and Gary Tanner, an executive at Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, headquartered in Laval, Canada, over fraud and kickback scheme allegations, according to The New York Times.
Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Medical Facilities Corp. named Tyler Murphy executive vice president of finance.
Canton-Potsdam (N.Y.) Hospital is "unlikely" to pursue its plans of building an ASC in a new medical facility following CMS' 2017 OPPS that includes site-neutral payments, according to North County Now.
Ramat Gan, Israel-based GI View is hoping its single-use, self-propelled, 360 degree omni-directional Aer-O-Scope is going to change the way physicians perform colonoscopies.
Douglas Howell, MD, is a gastroenterologist at the Portland (Maine) Gastroenterology Center.
Seattle-based The Polyclinic and Swedish Medical Center celebrated the opening of the First Hill Surgery Center, the largest independent surgery center in the Pacific Northwest, on Nov. 21, 2016.
Vestavia Hills, Ala.-based Petro Facial Plastic Surgery & Medspa was accredited by the Skokie-Ill.-based Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.
After acquiring LumenR and EndoChoice, Boston Scientific committed to leaning on its endoscopy business to drive growth company-wide, Trefis reports.