An ultrasound technician was awarded a $2.2 million verdict after she was fired from a women's health clinic days before her surgery to treat a work-related injury, the Sioux City Journal reports.
Author: Alan Condon
An insurer on Oct. 26 asked a California federal court to revoke an ASC's professional liability policy after it accused the surgery center and one of its spine surgeons of failing to disclose malpractice lawsuits in its insurance renewal application,…
Over the past 18 months, ASCs played a critical role in the COVID-19 pandemic response. Now they are poised to take center stage as high-quality, low-cost providers within the value-based healthcare ecosystem. However, many barriers to growth exist.
Orthopedic surgeon James Andrews, MD, has formed Andrews Ambulatory Surgery, a joint venture between Andrews Medicine and Sovereign Healthcare, a development and management company in Mission Viejo, Calif.
Deerfield, Ill.-based Surgical Care Affiliates, a division of UnitedHealth Group's Optum, on Oct. 19 filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses it of making agreements with competitors not to poach senior-level employees, Law360 reports.
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From an insurer that allegedly reimbursed an ASC $190,600 less than the cost of a spine surgery to another that accused three ASCs of filing more than $5.7 million in fraudulent claims, here are three high-profile lawsuits involving surgery centers…
An Oct. 14 Congressional letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., urged them to take action against CMS' physician payment cuts in 2021.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota on Oct. 1 ended its coverage for pain treatment at the Center for Pain Management and reported the clinic to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Echo Press reports.
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare continues to ramp up its surgery center business after its subsidiary United Surgical Partners International announced an agreement to acquire a stake in nine ASCs in North Carolina, Texas and Florida.
Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola Medicine has proposed a surgery center in Tinley Park, Ill., that would cost more than $69 million, the Chicago Tribune reported Oct. 12.