Supply Chain
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente health system has been ordered to pay the state $49 million to settle allegations of illegally dumping hazardous waste, medical supplies and patient information, according to a Sept. 9 report from CBS' Sacramento-based affiliate CBS13.
Medical supply giant Medline recently announced the addition of a $75 million distribution center in St. Peters, Mo., to keep up with a growing demand from healthcare institutions, including ASCs, according to a Sept. 1 report from the St. Louis…
Fifteen drugs have been listed as in shortage since the beginning of August, according to data from the FDA and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
From staffing shortages to supply chain costs, several economic factors are placing burdens on health practice profitability heading into 2024.
About half of U.S. hospitals ended 2022 with negative margins — and 2023 has brought its own financial challenges.
The HHS Office of Inspector General has issued an advisory opinion rejecting a proposed joint venture between a group of surgeons and an entity that supplies those same surgeons with intraoperative neuromonitoring services, claiming the partnership would violate federal anti-kickback…
Steris, a medical device company, has completed its acquisition of medical technology company Becton, Dickinson and Co.'s surgical instrumentation platform in a $540 million deal.
Health systems are taking a hard look at how their vendors and supply chain partners secure their systems against cyberattacks following a string of attacks in healthcare costing systems $10.9 million so far in 2023, according to a July 27…
A man from the Philadelphia area pleaded guilty to distributing medical devices without FDA clearance.
In 2021, Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, parent organization of United Surgical Partners International, renewed its longtime supply partnership with national group purchasing organization HealthTrust Performance Group (HealthTrust).