A new accusation filed by the Medical Board of California, claims that Jason Lane, MD, arrived to work at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Diego with a blood alcohol content of 0.39 percent, which was nearly five times the legal driving limit.
The Iowa Board of Medicine fined plastic surgeon and hand specialist Rene F. Recinos, MD, PhD, $2,500 for performing trigger release surgery on a patient’s right ring finger instead of the right middle finger. Recinos realized his mistake, informed the patient, and performed the...
The American Medical Association (AMA) has asked CMS to postpone the deadline for physicians and teaching hospitals to register and review the Open Payments system to March 31, 2015.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 34
Arizona-based Carondelet Health Network has agreed to pay $35 million to resolve allegations that two of its hospitals submitted false claims for inpatient rehabilitation services to Medicare and other federal programs from 2004 to 2011.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 34
Community Health Systems (CHS) announced this week that Chinese hackers stole the personal data of 4.5 million patients. The data included Social Security numbers, addresses, birth dates, and phone numbers but did not include medical data or credit card numbers.
