The agency said it hopes to control “unnecessary” increases in the volume of clinic visit services furnished at certain off-campus hospital departments.
Rabun County, Georgia, jurors settled on the eight-figure sum on June 26 following a trial that started 11 days prior, with Gainesville Radiology Group one of the defendants.
Details are emerging in the extraordinary case of a U.S. toddler who was found alive in a hospital morgue five or six hours after an ER doctor declared the child dead by drowning.
A hospital system in Tennessee is under fire for delays getting patients’ radiology reports submitted in a timely manner following its move to outsource reads.
A patient of Huntsville Hospital Health System says the hospital was negligent when it failed to protect patient data, taken by hackers during a breach on a legacy Cerner EHR system. The hospital said the EHR vendor is ultimately responsible.
The Office of Inspector General said a "leadership failure and poor decision making" in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in New York has left it unable to properly fulfill its mission to "protect patients from abuse and neglect."
The state is one step closer to enacting legislation that would require imaging and radiation therapy professionals to acquire state licensure to operate radiation-producing equipment.
There is a belief among some clinicians that it is too easy for companies to gain CE mark approval for their medical devices. However, a new proposal from the European Society of Cardiology and other groups could help change that.
The FDA is warning the public that certain Medline surgical kits may contain catheters that have been linked to 41 customer complaints and three serious injuries.
The agency said it hopes to control “unnecessary” increases in the volume of clinic visit services furnished at certain off-campus hospital departments.
Rabun County, Georgia, jurors settled on the eight-figure sum on June 26 following a trial that started 11 days prior, with Gainesville Radiology Group one of the defendants.
Details are emerging in the extraordinary case of a U.S. toddler who was found alive in a hospital morgue five or six hours after an ER doctor declared the child dead by drowning.
