A Naples, Fla., allergist and immunologist has been named in a federal civil complaint alleging he falsified patient diagnoses to obtain Medicare coverage for immune globulin treatments, the Justice ...
VisionMed has appointed Tony Burns as strategic advisor for ambulatory and office-based surgery. According to a May 1 news ...
Nearly 300 ASCs were included on U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers” list for colonoscopy and endoscopy, with more than 40 in the Midwest. The ratings evaluated 17 types of ...
The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology raised concerns about federal student loan limits affecting CRNAs and other advanced nursing degrees. The rule defines “professional students” as those ...
Benjamin Stein, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and co-founder and chairman of Bethesda, Md.-based Capital Surgical Solutions, told Becker’s that technology can move the needle at ASCs, but cautioned that ...
From six-figure mortgages to medical school loans they’re still paying off years into their careers, physicians carry a ...
Baptist Health Fort Smith (Ark.) plans to close its cardiology clinic and end related services as part of a broader restructuring effort, according to an April 29 report by CBS affiliate KSFM-5News.
The work relative value unit model was designed to standardize how physician labor gets measured and paid. Decades later, the data suggests it has struggled to keep pace with the realities of modern ...
Janet Carlson, RN, spent years watching surgeons struggle, not with patient care, but with everything around it. “I saw incredibly talented surgeons weighed down by operational inefficiencies, ...
Medical device company Ventric Health has appointed Javed Butler, MD, and Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD, to its clinical advisory board. Dr. Butler is president of the Dallas-based Baylor Scott and White ...
Rancho Mirage, Calif.-based Eisenhower Health opened a new outpatient campus in Palm Springs, Calif., according to an April 30 report by KMIR-TV NBC Palm Springs.  The campus includes the Brad Lampley ...
Hospital has added Sonja Olsen, MD, according to a May 1 report from South Florida Hospital News.  Dr. Olsen is a gastroenterologist and transplant hepatologist specialist. She practiced transplant ...