The New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers has announced its board members and officers for 2011-12 in a news release.
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Samara Moore, MD, has agreed to pay $238,000 in a medical malpractice lawsuit that accused her of delivering negligent care, according to a Southeast Texas Record report.
Several shared lessons and common themes emerged after five Indianapolis hospitals participated in a collaborative designed to study an evidence-based bundle to reduce MRSA, according to research published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Read the full report in Becker’s…
Englok Yap, MD, a pain specialist at the Cleveland Clinic, has joined Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, according to a report from The Plain Dealer.
ECRI Institute has released a new white paper on the challenges of hospital operating room integration, according to an ECRI news release.
Kentucky’s Attorney General Jack Conway is suing pharmaceutical company McKesson, claiming the wholesaler conspired with a price data service to inflate its Medicaid reimbursements, according to a Courier-Journal report. The suit claims McKessson plotted with First DataBank to distort the…
Leading business associations recently joined medical technology companies in urging Congressional leaders to repeal the medical device tax, which is part of the healthcare reform law, according to a news release by the Medical Device Manufacturers Association.
Boca Pharmacal has received FDA approval of its abbreviated new drug application for hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen oral solution for the relief of moderate to moderately severe pain, according to a news release from Boca Pharmacal.
The oncologist who ran Pacific Coast Hematology/Oncology Medical Group in Fountain Valley, Calif., has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for submitting bills for drugs that cancer patients never received, according to a Daily Pilot report. Glen R. Justice,…
Chicago — The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, the national association for surgery centers, and ASC Communications, publisher of Becker's ASC Review, announce Ambulatory Alliances has been named a sponsor for the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference, to be held…
