Ex-hospital VP pleads guilty to bribery, kickbacks, theft
A former associate vice president at Beverly (Mass.) Hospital pleaded guilty to soliciting bribes and kickbacks from hospital contractors and stealing artwork while the hopsital was under a multi-million dollar renovation.
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State to curb fat paychecks with executive compensation cap
State-funded providers could earn a maximum of $199,000 under the new pay cap New York proposed last week, to take effect Jan. 1, 2013.
Surgeons still tired despite duty hour limits
Fatigued residents have a 22 percent greater risk of causing a medical error than alert, well-rested doctors, according to a new study, which found surgeons were tired half of their waking hours, operating on less than 80 percent mental effectiveness. What's more, a quarter of the time their fatigue was tantamount to being legally drunk.
Patients sue Tenet Healthcare for hidden facility fees
A class action lawsuit accuses two Tenet Healthcare hospitals of including "misleading and undisclosed" hospital facility fees for non-hospital services provided at affiliated doctor's offices and outpatient clinics.
Zero tolerance curbs infections
Vendors sentenced after defrauding hospital, bribing execs
Four hospital vendors are headed to prison after being sentenced Friday for defrauding Florida's Memorial Healthcare System in a bribery scheme, in which the vendors paid kickbacks to hospital executives in exchange for $15 million contracts with the public hospital system, South Florida Business Journal reported.
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