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Mario Perciavalle, a former associate director of plant services at Mount Sinai Medical Center and School of Medicine in New York has pled guilty to participating in bid rigging and fraud conspiracies related to contracts for maintenance other services performed…

Older patients and a longer duration of follow-up were associated with lower healing rates after double-row rotator cuff repair, according to a study published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Intraoperative neuromonitoring allows surgeons to safely perform more aggressive deformity correction and tumor resection and can provide an assessment of spinal cord functionality in real time when combined with somatosensory-evoked potentials and motor-evoked potentials, according to a study published in…

Sandy Berreth, administrator of Brainerd Lakes Surgical Center in Baxter, Minn., provides five best practices for how to task your physicians with reducing supply costs and finding cheaper, quality alternatives to expensive items.

Significantly more healthcare providers, GPOs, device manufacturers and wholesalers are moving toward adoption of a global data standards system in the next five years than in 2008, according to a recent survey by the Health Industry Group Purchasing Association's Committee…

Kettering (Ohio) Medical Center is considering building a new ASC on 34 acres of property located near the hospital's main building in Kettering, according to a report from the Dayton Daily News.

The average annual salary for full-time healthcare quality professionals is now $85,289, up from $83,442 in 2009, while the number of quality professionals reporting they were unemployed, retired or laid off declined to 3.1 percent compared to 4.9 percent in…

A settlement has been reached over a False Claims lawsuit involving three hospitals in Idaho, two speech therapists and their speech therapy businesses, according to a Local News 8 report.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Gastroenterology and Urology Devices Panel has recommended approval of Solesta as a treatment for fecal incontinence, a condition afflicting many Americans, primarily women, according to an Oceana Therapeutics news release.

A new clinic will be opening as part of Southeast Pain Care in Norfolk, Va., with Brian Weaver, MD, as its director, according to a Daily Press news report.