A judge is expected to rule this week whether Lacy Thomas, former CEO of Las Vegas’ University Medical Center, will again stand trial on allegations that he steered $10 million in no-bid contracts and sweetheart deals to his friends in…
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The office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Education is proposing a "mystery shopper" approach to evaluate primary care physicians, according to an AAPC release.
A planned nursing strike at Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) General Hospital scheduled for yesterday was called off after the nurses' union reached a tentative agreement with the hospital, according to a Times-Tribune report.
Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House and possible presidential candidate, is calling for transparency of prices for medical devices from hip implants to stents, according to a report by DOTmed.
Fewer mass layoffs at hospitals occurred in the first quarter of 2011 than in the first quarter of 2010, according to a release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A mass layoff involves at least 50 employees losing their jobs…
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Community Health Systems has increased its all-cash bid for Tenet Healthcare from $6 per share to $7.25 as its “best and final offer,” according to a CHS news release. If Tenet has not begun good-faith discussions with CHS by May…
It seemed like a perfect arrangement: an interested and loyal group of community-based physicians teaming up with the local hospital to create a win-win joint-venture ASC. But, as the saying goes, “even the best laid plans often go astray.” When…
At Johnson & Johnson's annual meeting, shareholders voted down a proposal to end use of animals to train surgeons for the company's high-tech surgical tools, according to a report by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Earlier this week, CMS issued a proposed rule that would revise the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment system for operating and capital-related costs of acute-care hospitals in fiscal year 2012.
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." That well known saying applies well to workflow processes at ambulatory surgery centers, says Jeff Blankinship, CEO of Surgical Notes in Dallas. Rather…