The U.S. Attorney’s Office has filed a False Claims Act lawsuit against an Illinois physician for allegedly signing orders for medically unnecessary orthotic braces for Medicare beneficiaries she never examined, the Justice Department said in an April 15 news release.…
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Memorial Hospital in Abilene, Kan., has installed a new CT scanner to expand its imaging capabilities, according to an April 16 report by KCYL. The Siemens Healthineers “SOMATOM go.All” system became operational March 24 following construction, installation and testing. The…
The FDA has issued early alerts for surgical convenience kits from Medical Action Industries and American Contract Systems tied to a recall of Medline Industries’ angiographic control syringes. The affected kits contain Namic RA syringes, which may have a rotating…
Medline has entered an agreement with Symbotic to implement AI-enabled warehouse automation technology. The company is the first healthcare organization to deploy the Symbotic system, an AI-powered platform that automates the picking, storage and retrieval of items used across hospital…
Last year, I warned in an opinion essay that hospital finances were becoming a house of cards — fragile, interdependent and increasingly vulnerable to policy decisions made far from the bedside in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento. Unfortunately, that warning proved…
Miami-based Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute is adding nine interventional radiology physicians to its team and has named a system chief of interventional radiology. The radiologists will bring expertise in vascular interventional radiology and work with a multidisciplinary…
Community health workers are saving thousands in avoided ED visits and hospitalizations, but they are still an underfunded resource in healthcare, The New York Times reported April 18. Community health workers have been around since the 1960s and tend to…
The American Hospital Association has urged the Health Resources and Services Administration to abandon its consideration of the 340B rebate model pilot program, arguing the approach would impose significant financial and administrative burdens on hospitals. In an April 20 letter…
Dino Johnson, BSN, RN, has been appointed COO of Bellevue, Wash.-based Overlake Medical Center and Clinics. Mr. Johnson joins the organization after more than 20 years with Tacoma, Wash.-based Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, he wrote in an April 20 LinkedIn…
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is recommending children as young as 6 months receive the measles vaccine. The change comes after seven measles cases were identified in Washtenaw County and another case in Monroe County, according to…