ICD-10 Implementation for ASCs: What You Must Do Now
If you think you can wait until 2013 to evaluate your system processes and work protocols for the ICD-10 implementation, think again! The ICD-10 implementation doesn't mean you simply need to purchase a new coding manual. It involves changes and considerations that should be initiated this year. Just for starters, did you know electronic transaction version 4010 will change to version 5010 beginning with internal testing in 2010 and external testing as early as Jan. 1, 2011? If you've just experienced a "deer in the headlights" reaction, fear not. This column will bring you up to speed.
Click to continue »ASC Industry Leader to Know: Joe Zasa of ASD Management
As the co-founder and managing partner of ASD Management, Joe Zasa focuses on turning around existing surgery centers and helping physicians and hospitals develop new ASCs. An expert in surgery center profitability, Mr. Zasa is keenly aware of some of the ways ASCs fail: by performing non-profitable cases, blindly accepting physician coding and waiting until after surgery to collect co-pays. Click to continue »Texas Patient Recruiter Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for Accepting Kickbacks
A recruiter for Houston-based durable medical equipment company Luant & Odera was sentenced to 21 months in prison for her involvement in a $3 million fraud scheme, according to a news release by the Department of Justice. Click to continue »Urologist Defends Illinois ASC, Industry Over Infection Control Article
Paul Merrick, MD, president of DuPage Medical Group in Illinois and an urologist at the DuPage Medical Group Surgical Center in Lombard, defended his ASC and the surgery center industry in a letter to a local newspaper following an article in the publication about infection risks in ASCs. Click to continue »AmSurg Profit Slips 5%, Revenue Improves
AmSurg has announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, reporting a decline in profits compared to the same period a year ago but an increase in revenues. Click to continue »New York Nurse and One Other Arrested for Medicaid Fraud
A licensed practical nurse and the mother of a disabled child from New York were arrested for conspiring to defraud Medicaid of over $32,000, according to an announcement by the N.Y. Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo. Click to continue »West Virginia OB/GYN Charged with De-Frauding Medicare, Medicaid and Others
Danine Rydland, MD, a West Virginia obstetrician/gynecologist, has been charged with 38 counts of healthcare fraud, according to a Charleston Gazette report. Click to continue »Missouri Audiologist Charged With Medicaid Fraud
Dana Opfer, AUD, CCCA, an audiologist from Missouri, has been charged with three counts of Medicaid fraud, according to an announcement by Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster. Click to continue »Former Ohio Physician Indicted for Healthcare Fraud and Theft
Ohio family physician Stacey Royal, MD, who was charged last year with submitting false claims, was indicted for seven more healthcare fraud-related charges by a Wood County grand jury, according to a report by the Toledo Blade. Click to continue »
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