A wide-reaching Seattle Times probe into Providence Health’s Swedish Cherry Hill Hospital alleges administrators pushed a “high volume approach” on surgeons, lied to patients about which surgeons would perform their procedure and performed dangerous surgeries when less invasive alternatives were available.

Accelerating drug approvals and funding the cancer “moonshot” were the more widely-covered aspects of the 21st Century Cures Act signed into law last year. Yet it also contained a new path for safety-net hospitals to avoid readmissions penalties.

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report says physicians and hospitals failed to tell the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of safety issues related to power morcellators spreading undiagnosed cancer cells in women. Those devices aim to make tissue removal easier through small incisions and are most often used during hysterectomies or to remove benign uterine tumors. 

Participation in CMS’s Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Program (BPCI) didn’t lead to more lower extremity joint replacement procedures being performed, according to a study conducted by the Altarum Institute’s Center for Payment Innovation.

There are guidelines about how many hours interns and more senior residents can work in a day or week. Many, however, go past those limits and lie about it.

Lower inpatient admission rates at hospitals seemed to correlate to higher rates of unexpected deaths within seven days of discharge from an emergency department, according to a new study published in BMJ.

Safety issues have again popped up in pharmaceutical units at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with the problem this time being “environmental mold” found in a sucrose solution.

A report commissioned by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has found the bed linens it and hundreds of other facilities used carried fungus that has been connected to five mold-related deaths.