Tom O'Bannon, director western alliance value optimization at Amerinet, discusses seven out-of-the-box ideas for ambulatory surgery centers to cut costs on supplies.
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HHS' Partnership for Patients and National Quality Forum will present a free patient safety webinar on preventing pressure ulcers and falls on Sept. 9 at 2:30 p.m., EDT.
The owner of Memorial Medical Supply, a Houston durable medical equipment business, has been sentenced to 97 months in prison for his role in a Medicare fraud scheme, according to a news release from the Department of Justice. Sunny Robinson…
The parents of a now-deceased baby were awarded an $11.4 million reward after a jury found Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston guilty of negligence, according to a Boston Herald report. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review…
Medical testing provider Laboratory Corp. of America will pay $49.5 million to the state of California to settle a lawsuit alleging illegal overcharges to the state’s medical program for the poor, according to a news release from Attorney General Kamala…
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After issuing safety warnings, the FDA may revoke its approvals of transvaginal mesh devices made by Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson, according to a Mass Device report.
Medtronic has completed acquisitions of PEAK Surgical and Salient Surgical for a total of $585 million, according to a Medtronic news release.
The FDA has approved Lupin's generic equivalent of Ortho-McNeil's Ultram ER tablets to treat chronic pain, according to a Lupin news release.
A federal grand jury in Buffalo, N.Y., has returned a 28-count indictment charging Pravin V. Mehta, MD, with illegally dispensing controlled drugs, primarily pain medications, according to an MSNBC report.
The FDA has issued an alert that repackaged intravitreal injections of the drug Avastin have caused at least a dozen serious eye infections in the Miami area, according to an FDA news release.