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The Joint Commission has launched a tool to aid healthcare providers in better complying with hand hygiene protocols, according to a news release.

As changes through health reform creep ever closer, ASCs across the country are wondering how they will find the capital and staff to implement a quality reporting system. Betty Bozzuto, president of the Connecticut Ambulatory Surgery Center Patient Safety Organization,…

In a letter to CMS Administrator Donald Berwick, MD, the American Hospital Association urges CMS to consider mandatory cost data reporting for ASCs, according to the letter and the Texas ASC Society.

In 2007, Lakeland Surgical and Diagnostic Center's CEO, Dave Daniel, decided that his Lakeland, Fla., facilities needed an infection control committee and appointed Bobbie Kendrick infection control officer for the LSDC Florida Avenue campus.

Covington, Ky.-based Omnicare, the largest provider of pharmaceutical care for nursing home patients, has agreed to pay $21 million to settle allegations that the company overbilled the Michigan and Massachusetts Medicaid programs, according to a Cincinnati Enquirer news report.

A computer system New York uses to catch Medicaid fraud let an additional $114 million in bad payments fall through the cracks, according to a New York Post news report.

John Costino, DO, a North Wildwood, N.J.-based sports medicine and family practice physician, and his wife Barbara Costino have pleaded not guilty to healthcare fraud charges, according to a Press of Atlantic City news report.

Hollywood, Fla.-based Memorial Healthcare System, operated by the South Broward Hospital District, is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice after a whistleblower brought forth allegations that it had conspired with Tampa, Fla.-based WellCare to defraud Florida's Medicaid and…

Arthritis and Allergy Associates, a medical practice located in Torrington, Conn., will pay more than $247,000 to settle allegations that it had violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medicare, according to a Register Citizen news report.

CMS has achieved a 1 percent reduction in Medicare Advantage premiums for next year by denying proposed rate increases and benefit cuts in about 14 percent of bids from private insurers in the program, according to a report by the…