Global pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb has been accused of bribing physicians and pharmacists to use their products by offering cash kickbacks, gifts and luxury suites for Los Angeles Lakers games, according to a Los Angeles Times report. A former Bristol-Myers…
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The owner of Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center in Inglewood, Calif., has agreed to pay $125,000 to settle allegations that it dumped a woman with chronic lung problems at a Los Angeles homeless shelter, according to a Los Angeles Times…
New York state authorities are investigating the boards linked to MediSys Health Network’s former CEO David Rosen, who has been charged for bribery, to determine whether the trustees violated ethical business practices, according to a Crain’s New York Business report.…
A judge has ruled that Youngstown, Ohio-based Forum Health cannot use donations from Trumbull Memorial Hospital Foundation or Western Reserve Health Foundation to pay unsecured creditors, according to a Tribune Chronicle report.
In a public hearing on Janesville, Wis.-based Mercy Health System's plans to build a 128-bed hospital in Crystal Lake, Ill., representatives from competing hospitals questioned its plans for a new facility, according to a Northwest Herald report.
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Catholic Healthcare West's St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco will open the new, $22 million CHW Cancer Center on March 26, according to a St. Mary's news release.
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health plans to submit a certificate of need application to develop a new hospital in Holly Springs, N.C., according to a Winston-Salem Journal report.
Two GOP representatives have introduced separate bills to repeal the ban on physician-owned hospitals in the healthcare reform law, according to a report by AHA News Now.
Surgery Center of Fairfield County, a four-OR facility with one procedure room in Bridgeport, Conn., hosts nine different specialties: GI, general surgery, gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedic, pain, plastic, podiatry and urology. Faith Kycia, administrator of the center, identifies eight challenges and…
CMS is seeing progress toward its goal of cutting the Medicare fee-for-service error rate in half by 2012, according to a CMS official's testimony before Congress.