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ePAY Healthcare, a provider of personalized self-service payment applications for hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers, has rolled its patient payment services to the Mirage Endoscopy Center, a Health Inventures-managed facility in Rancho Mirage, Calif.

A pediatrician from New York’s Orleans County was sentenced on federal charges to two years’ probation after he pleaded guilty to submitting false claims to a federal program, according to a Daily News report. Ghulam Mustafa, MD, admitted in U.S.…

HHS is reviewing a number of regulatory requirements that impact surgery centers, including a regulation that requires ASCs to provide certain notices to patients prior to the date of surgery, according to an ASCA release.

Congressman Dave Camp (R-MI), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, recently toured Great Lakes Bay Surgery & Endoscopy Center in Midland, Mich., according to a Booth Mid-Michigan report hosted on the Michigan Live website.

UnitedHealthcare has announced it is providing a $1.1 million grant to the Colorado Hospital Association to help hospitals in the state implement a program to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions, according to a UnitedHealthcare news release.

Price lists for physicians could limit unnecessary orders and decrease the cost of healthcare, say leaders at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, which distributes to its providers a one-page list of 56 common medical tests and their prices,…

Ruth P. Shumaker, RN, BSN, CNOR, a healthcare management consultant who focuses on both ambulatory surgery centers and hospital settings, discusses 10 ways to develop a strong sterile processing program in a surgery center.

Jim Webb, senior vice president of operations for Provista, a supply chain improvement company, recently delivered a presentation on the topic of "GPOs: How to Get the Most Out of Yours" at the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association's annual materials management…

H&P Industries, a manufacturer of over-the-counter drug products, has initiated a voluntary recall of all lots of its Povidone Iodine Swabsticks, Povidone Iodine Prep Solutions, Povidone Iodine Scrub Solutions and Povidone Iodine Prep Gel, according to an FDA news release.

Temporary emergency department staff members are twice as likely as permanent employees to be involved in medication errors, new Johns Hopkins research suggests.