Uncategorized

Alejandro Badia, MD, FACS, a Miami-based orthopedic surgeon and founder of the Badia Hand to Shoulder Center, a fully integrated facility that offers clinical, imaging, surgery and rehabilitation services for the upper limb, who is also the chief of hand…

Here are 17 facts and business and legal issues about premium intraocular lenses, a recent technology that can free many cataract surgery patients from having to wear eyeglasses.

Six healthcare providers in New York have reimbursed state officials more than $2.4 million in restitution and paid a combined $39,107 in fines for inflated billings submitted to the New York State Health Insurance Program, according to a report by…

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that work hours for U.S. physicians has declined steadily for the last 10 years, which has worsened the national physicians shortage.

A bill that would allow optometrists to perform certain laser surgeries and injections has passed the West Virginia Senate by a vote of 20-13, according to a report in the Charleston Daily Mail.

Robert Bourseau, the former owner of City of Angels Medical Center in Los Angeles, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to provide illegal kickbacks for the recruitment of homeless patients to come…

Stanislaus Surgical Hospital in Modesto, Calif. has evolved along with the times, and its strategy is paying off in patient satisfaction.

The number of healthcare workers who are members of unions or covered by a collective bargaining agreement has increased to nearly 1 million in 2009, or approximately 12.9 percent of non-physician healthcare workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford Springs, Conn., has agreed to pay $191,193 to resolve allegations that it improperly billed Medicare between 2000 and 2005, according to a report by the Hartford Courant.

Eon Labs, a subsidiary of Sandoz, which is in turn a subsidiary of Novartis AG, has agreed to pay $3.5 million to the federal government to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to Medicaid involving the company's Nitroglycerin Sustained…