Whenever there is a wound infection at Lakeland (Fla.) Surgical & Diagnostic Center, the ASC conducts a thorough investigation of the incident and documents numerous pieces of information about the incident, treatment and patient characteristics.
Uncategorized
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has announced it will hold a film festival focusing on infection prevention and control at its annual 2011 conference.
The Utah Attorney General's Office has filed a lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline for illegal marketing of its type 2 diabetes drug Avandia, defrauding the state's Medicaid program out of $7.8 million between Jan. 2001 and June 2010, according to a news…
Temple University Health System has agreed to pay $130,000 in penalties following a six-year investigation into the health system's drug-tracking procedures by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration and a U.S. Attorney's Office in Pennsylvania, according to…
Massachusetts has prevailed in a False Claims Act lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Mylan, which was accused of reporting inflated prices to drug price-reporting services, causing the Massachusetts Medicaid program to pay inflated prices for Medicaid beneficiaries' prescriptions, according to a…
Advertisement
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other government partners have launched the third annual Get Smart About Antibiotics Week, which will take place through Nov. 21, according to a CDC news release.
The growing movement to repeal all or parts of the healthcare reform law is raising hopes that the law's ban on physician-owned hospitals could be removed, but an industry leader says it could take months to pass such legislation.
A federal judge has ruled that Bradford (Penn.) Regional Medical Center has violated the federal Stark Act by entering into an illegal financial relationship with two physicians and their medical practice and submitting claims to Medicare based upon referrals from…
The Oklahoma Health Care Authority has terminated three physicians and barred them from participating in the federal Medicaid program and is currently reviewing the status of 10 other physicians after their names appeared on a list of the top prescribers…
A study published in the AORN Journal reveals patients who receive forced-air warming perioperatively had temperatures that reached or were maintained at 36 degrees Celsius or higher within 15 minutes after leaving the OR, reducing the incidence of unplanned hypothermia,…