Providence Swedish South Puget Sound, the operator of Olympia, Wash.-based Providence St. Peter Hospital, plans to reduce the majority of its outpatient physical, occupational and speech therapy services in January, according to an Oct. 31 report from The Olympian.
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West Virginia is the worst state to find a job, according to WalletHub's 2024 ranking.
Here are 10 ASCs currently hiring administrators:
A physician in Margate, N.J., was sentenced to 15 months in prison and must pay more than $5 million for his role in a scheme to defraud payers by submitting claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions.
It is not uncommon for ASCs, especially smaller facilities, to outsource billing operations to revenue cycle management companies.
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Scott Newcombe, a 40-year-old man from Plattsburgh, N.Y., pleaded guilty to committing healthcare fraud.
New Hampshire is the best state to find a job, according to WalletHub's 2024 ranking.
From consistently declining reimbursements to inflation and staffing shortages, these are the healthcare trends that ASC leaders told Becker's they're tired of hearing about and want to see action on:
AMN Healthcare's 2024 "Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives," report named nurse practitioners as the most in-demand medical professionals of 2023 and 2024.
Physicians have an average annual salary of $187,330 in Pennsylvania, the state with the most physicians per capita, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.