Infection control and compliance is a hot topic in ASCs at the moment, and regulations are only expected to increase going forward. Here are five things every ASC leader should know about infection control and compliance.
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Laser Eye Center of Hawaii in Honolulu has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, following an announcement that it would close at the end of the month, according to a Star Advertiser report.
The Department of Justice recovered $3 billion in cases involving fraud against the government in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2010, according to a DOJ news release.
In response to the Becker’s Hospital Review report, “Wall Street Journal: After Making a Deal on Healthcare Reform, AMA Still Can’t Get to Permanent Fee-Fix,” a comment attributed to American Medical Association President Cecil B. Wilson, MD, read as the…
Medicaid recovery audit contractors are coming. Each state will choose Medicaid RAC contractors by the end of the year, and contractors will begin operations as early as April 1. Paul Spencer, a consultant at Fi-Med Management in Wauwautosa, Wis., says…
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The ASC Association has announced that a free toolkit on single-use device reprocessing is now available from the Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality Collaboration.
Julie Martin, assistant vice president for surgical services for all three campuses of HealthOne in Denver, discusses what HealthOne's ASCs do to ensure more successful materials management.
Fiaz Afzal, MD, an internist and owner of Claiborne Medical Corporation in Kenner, La., has been charged with Medicaid fraud, according to a news report by The Times-Picayune.
Marc Hermelin, the former chairman of the board of Bridgeton, Mo.-based KV Pharmaceutical is the first executive of a drug company to be banned from participating in federal healthcare programs, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch news report.
A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control analyzed the different infection practices carried out in U.S. healthcare settings, according to the study's abstract.