Officials in Southwest Riverside County in California plan to hold a public meeting this week to discuss problems related to Southwest Healthcare System, which operates Rancho Springs Medical Center in Murrieta, Calif., and Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar, Calif.,…
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Ernesto Angel Montaner, formerly of Miami-Dade County, Fla., was indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and multiple counts of healthcare fraud, a week after his son, Ernesto Montaner, and co-conspirator, Jose Antonio Varona were charged with conspiracy…
Several large Chicago-area hospitals have requested decisions from the Illinois Department of Revenue on the tax-exempt status of several new construction and expansion projects, in light of the state Supreme Court's ruling to withdraw Urbana, Ill.'s Provena Covenant Medical Center's…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced a new initiative to address safety problems associated with external infusion pumps, which are often used to deliver fluids, including nutrients and anesthesia and chemotherapy medications, into a patient's body in a…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced a new initiative to address safety problems associated with external infusion pumps, which are often used to deliver fluids, including nutrients and anesthesia and chemotherapy medications, into a patient's body in a…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration hosted a call to update stakeholders on the current shortage of propofol injection and other anesthesia drugs and announced a new website designed to answer common questions about the shortage, according to a news…
Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa (Calif.) has dropped plans for a physician-owned medical center, planned as part of its 70-bed expansion project, because it would not meet the new requirements for physician-ownership put in place by the healthcare reform…
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has announced its support of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision to reject the application of Johnson & Johnson's SEDASYS Computer-Assisted Personalized Sedation System, according to an ASA news release.
Here are the anesthesia claims modifiers and guidance for when to report them, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service's Medicare Claims Processing Manual.
In a proposed rule, CMS wants to introduce financial penalties and add 10 more measures to its Reporting Hospital Quality Data for Annual Payment Update (RHQDAPU) program, according to a release from CMS.