A former New Hampshire psychiatrist has been sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison for signing hundreds of medically unnecessary orders for braces without ever examining patients, according to an Oct. 13 news release from the U.S.…
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CMS’ 2.5% efficiency adjustment cut work relative value units on about 7,700 non-time-based codes starting Jan. 1. It was a percentage cut that came with a conversion factor increase, so the dollar effect is easy to miss. For physicians paid…
A Falmouth, Mass., man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder proceeds of a more than $6 million Medicare fraud scheme run through a New Hampshire medical supply company, according to an Oct. 13 news release from the Justice Department.…
When its anesthesiology group pulled out roughly two years ago, a Buffalo, N.Y.-based ASC had to rethink how it delivers anesthesia. That meant new supervision policies, retraining for its clinical staff and a new surgical schedule. Kimberly Fullone, administrator of…
A Buffalo, N.Y.-based ASC stopped performing pediatric surgery after its anesthesiology group left and the center moved to a CRNA-only model. Before that, it had been one of only two local sites performing pediatric strabismus surgery. Kimberly Fullone, administrator of…
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Orthopedics or plastic surgery has been the highest-paid physician specialty in each of the last five Medscape Physician Compensation Reports. Pediatrics has ranked in the bottom two every year. Plastic surgery led in the 2022 and 2023 reports. Orthopedics has…
Independence Blue Cross will judge its new surgery center venture through its own claims data, a spokesperson for the Philadelphia-based insurer told Becker’s. IBX, Penn Medicine and Regent Surgical plan to develop at least 18 ASCs across Pennsylvania, New Jersey…
After a physician group acquisition, compliance teams should check every inherited compensation arrangement for three Stark Law red flags in the first 30 days, according to an Oct. 12 blog post from Ntracts, a healthcare contract management company. Here are…
San Diego-based Euclid Endoscopy Center has been acquired by Nashville, Tenn.-based Amsurg, according to an Oct. 13 news release shared with Becker’s. The gastroenterology-focused ASC operates locations in San Diego and El Cajon, Calif., with three procedure rooms and five…
ASCs worked 38% of their oldest accounts in 2025, compared with 92% of accounts less than 30 days old, according to HST Pathways’ 2026 State of the ASC Industry Report. The report draws on data from 682 surgery centers in…