Fultondale, Ala. physician Paul Roberts, MD, is accused of unlawfully prescribing controlled substances while participating in a healthcare fraud scheme with two other men, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Alabama.  By Angie Stewart - 12/3/18

There's no horsing around when it comes to animal-related injuries.  By Angie Stewart - 12/3/18

Workers Compensation Research Institute found the percentage of hospital inpatient and outpatient claims generally decreased from 2002 to 2016, Business Insurance reports.  By Angie Stewart - 12/3/18

Organizations generate most of their revenue from fee-for-service payments despite regulations and guidelines aimed at driving value-based reimbursement, according to the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council Survey.  By Angie Stewart - 11/30/18

Amazon Comprehend Medical, Amazon's new language processing service for scanning and extracting medical record data, could vastly improve medical coding, according to TechNewsWorld.  By Angie Stewart - 11/30/18

EHR deployment can deliver a significant return on investment for ASCs if they develop a strategic implementation process, HSTpathways CFO Tom Scott wrote in an article on Health Data Management.   By Angie Stewart - 11/30/18

Bausch Health's Xifaxan is a strong therapy for irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea, but Seeking Alpha columnist Jose Solorio said the drugmaker is missing its chance to own the IBS therapies market.  By Eric Oliver - 11/29/18

CMS will terminate its Medicare provider agreement with Kennewick, Wash.-based Retina Laser Eye Center at 12:01 a.m. Dec. 12.  By Eric Oliver - 11/29/18

Crown Point, Ind.-based CBC Surgery Center partnered with Access HealthNet.  By Angie Stewart - 11/28/18

CMS has paved the way for price transparency between ASCs and hospital outpatient departments with a new tool that reveals the average payments for select procedures in both settings.  By Laura Dyrda - 11/28/18

If your ASC can pay its bills on time, make regular distributions to its owners, and afford the occasional capital investment that helps drive growth, congratulations! Many ASCs struggle to accomplish one or more of these indicators of financial stability and success.  By Angela Mattioda, Vice President of Revenue Cycle Management Services, Surgical Notes RCM - 11/28/18

As hospitals lost key revenue-generating services to outpatient facilities, two-thirds of health systems saw their operating income drop between fiscal years 2015 and 2017, according to a Navigant report.  By Angie Stewart - 11/27/18

Medical Transcription Billing Corp. reported historic revenue growth in the third quarter of 2018, putting it on track for a record year.   By Angie Stewart - 11/26/18

President Donald Trump's administration asked physicians and hospitals for help rewriting kickback regulations in what officials call a "regulatory sprint to coordinated care," The New York Times reports.  By Angie Stewart - 11/26/18

Baton Rouge-based Louisiana Spine & Sports co-owner Gray Wesley Barrow, MD, pleaded guilty Nov. 20 to involvement in an illegal healthcare kickback scheme, according to the Department of Justice.  By Angie Stewart - 11/26/18

Black Book survey results show that 82 percent of medical providers and 92 percent of hospitals have planned to abandon traditional manual efforts to back-end process and reconciling bills by the fourth quarter of 2018, according to Inside Arm.  By Jackie Drees - 11/21/18

If you have worked in an ASC over the past several years, one trend that has been hard to miss is the shift of financial responsibility from payers to patients.  By Randy Bishop, Partner, Surgical Funds - 11/21/18

Insurers may wrongly deny a claim and hope providers don't notice it's actually a covered service, according to medical coding and billing specialist Steven Verno.  By Angie Stewart - 11/20/18

Revenue cycle intelligence company Sift Healthcare secured a $1 million investment from venture capital fund Winnebago Seed Fund and other investors, including Wind River Financial.  By Angie Stewart - 11/19/18

Nearly one year ago, Intervention Insights launched its Trapelo platform to help oncologists make treatment decisions using real-time, evidence-based information.   By Angie Stewart - 11/19/18