/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20111124_Arthrex_TB-378x82.jpg

Subscriptions

Advertising

Resources

About Us

Contact Us

Create An Account Forgot Your Password?
Trouble logging in or creating an account? click here
Home This Month E-Weekly Newsletter Building a Facility Article Archive Second Opinions
Search:
Benchmarking
General Surgery
Accrediting/Quality
Anesthesia
Code/Bill/Reimburse
Building/Renovating
/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20111226_Soma_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20111202_Arthrex_LB-154x100.jpg
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120126_ASP_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120123_PDI_LB-154x100.gif
Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

A Kentucky congressman is urging surgical facilities to contact their members of Congress and request that they sign his letter demanding changes to...

N.J. Posts ASC Inspection Reports Online

State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

Are Opioids Necessary?

While it's not always practical, or even possible, to eliminate opioids from your post-op pain management regiment, reducing their use in favor of n...

Archive > June, 2003 Vol. IV, No. 6

This Just In

Edited by Bill Meltzer

Sterilizer Lawsuit
Former Steris Exec Sues for Wrongful Termination
Larry J. Joslyn, a former Steris executive described as a nationally renowned expert in sterilization sciences, sued the company in an Ohio court, claiming he was wrongly fired two years ago for repeatedly voicing complaints to Steris that its sterilizers "do not sterilize per label claims and are adulterated and misbranded products" that can endanger patient health and safety, according to court documents. Steris categorically denies Mr. Joslyn's allegations.

Sign in to continue reading.
Email Address:
Password:
Categories: Accrediting/Quality, Code/Bill/Reimburse, Business Management, GYN/Urology, Infection Control, Legal/Regulatory, Ophthalmology, Supplies/Implants, News, Patient Management
Keywords:
Sterilizer Lawsuit; HIPAAchondria; CASC Update; Workers' Comp Surgery; Adds; Ambulatory Surgery Association; Association; Average; Bill Meltzer Workers' Comp Surgery California Workers' Comp Reform Seeks; Bureau. Blaming; California; California Ambulatory Surgery Association; California's; Comp California's; Comp Reform Seeks; Comp Surgery California Workers' Comp Reform Seeks; Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. Blaming; Contact Lens; Curb Outpatient Surgery; Daniel Inouye; Exec Sues; FDA; Implantable Contact Lens; Inouye; Insurance Rating Bureau. Blaming; Joslyn; Lawsuit Former Steris Exec... show all keywords
Sterilizer Lawsuit; HIPAAchondria; CASC Update; Workers' Comp Surgery; Adds; Ambulatory Surgery Association; Association; Average; Bill Meltzer Workers' Comp Surgery California Workers' Comp Reform Seeks; Bureau. Blaming; California; California Ambulatory Surgery Association; California's; Comp California's; Comp Reform Seeks; Comp Surgery California Workers' Comp Reform Seeks; Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. Blaming; Contact Lens; Curb Outpatient Surgery; Daniel Inouye; Exec Sues; FDA; Implantable Contact Lens; Inouye; Insurance Rating Bureau. Blaming; Joslyn; Lawsuit Former Steris Exec Sues; Lens; Medicare's; Medicare-based; Meltzer Workers' Comp Surgery California Workers' Comp Reform Seeks; Mr. Joslyn; Mr. Sherman. Another; Mr. Wilson; Nations; Ohio; Outpatient Surgery; Price; Rating Bureau. Blaming; Reform Seeks; SB; Seeks; Senate; Sherman. Another; Staar Surgical; Sterilizer; Steris; Steris Exec Sues; Steris System; Sues; Surgery; Surgery California Workers' Comp Reform Seeks; Surgery Association; Surgical; System; Thomas; Vasclip; Wilson; Workers' Comp California's; Workers' Comp Reform Seeks; Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. Blaming; achieved; action; addition; address; adulterated; agencies; aggressive; ago; aimed; approval; art; arthroscopic; asks; attaches; average; based; bill; billing; billion; bills; blame; block; brazenly; build; businesses; businessman; buying; cable; called; calls; cap; care; cases; categorically; cellular; center; charge; check; claiming; claims; clauses; collect; comp; company; compensation; complaint; considers; copy; cost; court; cover; customary; denies; design; device; devoted; documents; doubled; employers; end; endanger; enterprise; epidural; evidence; exclusively; executive; exorbitantly; experience; expert; facilities; facility; failed; fair; farsighted; fee; figure; filed; fill; final; financial; fired; fixed-fee; flaws; fluoroscopy; free; global; good; group; groupers; growing; half; health; high; high-technology; higher; highly; home; hospital; hurt; hyperopia; identified; impose; including; increases; informing; inherent; injured; insurance; intensity; interest; introduced; inventory; investors; itemize; job-related; justify; knee; label; land's; lawmakers; legal; legislation; legislature; level; live; lobbying; mandatory; material; matter; means; measure; memorandum; minimum; misbranded; mislabeling; model; moves; multicenter; nationally; nearsighted; newer; number; numerous; nurse-to-patient; obtained; one-year; operates; opposed; oral; outcomes; outpatient; overflow; owns; pages; pain; passed; patient; payroll; pays; pendulum; percent; percent-of-Medicare; physician; physician-owners; plans; poisoning; possibility; postponed; preparation; president; principal; procedure; product; product-bundling; products; professional; prohibit; prohibiting; promising; proposed; published; purchasing; put; raised; rate; ratios; reached; reasonable; recommendations; referring; refers; registered; regulating; regulatory; reimburse; reimbursement; renowned; repair; repeatedly; required; restrictions; rocked; schedule; sealing; secret; security; separate; severely; shave; shoulder; show; shown; skyrocketing; small; sold; southern; specialize; split; spoliation; state; stay; sterilization; sterilize; sterilizers; study; submit; submitting; sued; supports; surgeon; surgery; surgical; system; talking; telephone; threatened; three-year-old; trade; treating; trials; unreasonably; vas; vasectomy; violation; vision; voicing; water; willful; worker; written; wrongly; year

© Copyright Herrin Publishing Partners LP 2011. REPRODUCTION OF THIS COPYRIGHTED CONTENT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. We encourage LINKING to this content; view our linking policy here.

PRODUCT & SERVICE RESOURCES
Did You See This?
A showcase of products and services geared to make your facility better.

Architects' Showcase
Is a beautiful, efficient new facility in your future?
/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20111216_USWorldMeds_AR-300x250.jpg
Other Articles That May Interest You
Happy Holidays From the Wizards of Endo
GI docs administer creativity with their annual e-card.
ASC Leader to Testify in Congress Friday
Michael Guarino to describe perils facing physician-owned surgery centers.
Study: Off-Label Bevacizumab Is "Equivalent" to Ranibizumab for Treatment of Neovascular AMD
Government research suggests $50-a-dose Avastin is safe alternative to $2,000-a-dose Lucentis.