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During a delivery, a contract OB/GYN improperly used forceps. The infant's skull was crushed in the process, which left the child severely brain damaged.
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While patients assume their doctors will work to maintain trust and privacy in their relationships with patients, research has shown that health care providers often disclose personal information to patients' family members.
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The Department of Health and Human Services found that less than 25% of the total medical privacy complaints lodged with the agency merited further federal investigation of the health care organizations involved, according to an analysis of HHS' Office of Civil Rights (OCR) statistics by Melamedia LLC President Dennis Melamed.
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It was mostly good news in a long-awaited report from the General Accounting Office (GAO) analyzing costs at ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs).1
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Leaders of the ambulatory surgery community are praising Congress for passing a provision that requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to develop quality reporting requirements for ambulatory surgery centers and hospital outpatient services.
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According to a newly released report, reimbursement for gastroenterology procedures provided in surgery centers will decrease by as much as 20% in coming years, which will require a significant restructuring of many practices.
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Eventually, we will all be the victim of unscrupulous individuals that wish to plunder our coffers of supplies, cash, or other value at our facilities. The issue is not how to deal with it after it occurs (a nightmare), but rather how to prevent it in the first place.
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He receives requests for certain songs. People bring their own CDs for him to play. And there are days that everyone in the room is tapping their toes.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of silicone breast implants. This decision comes 14 years after the FDA restricted access to the silicone implants because of safety concerns.
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San Leandro (CA) Surgery Center typically experienced one or two patient falls a year, so managers were shocked when three falls occurred in a three-month period in early 2006.
