A California medical center has been shuttered and its owner charged with an $11 million fraud scheme, the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office said in a March 17 news release. Kim Huynh, 51, owner and operator of San Diego-based…
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A Wheeling, W.Va., physician was sentenced to 41 months in prison for tax fraud totaling nearly $2.5 million and attempting to obstruct a federal investigation, the Justice Department said in a March 17 news release. Nitesh Ratnakar, MD, who owned…
Strategic Radiology has added Baton Rouge-based Radiology Associates, its 50th member practice, with the coalition now representing over 2,400 radiologists, Radiology Business reported March 16. Radiology Associates brings 62 additional physicians to the coalition. Founded more than 70 years ago,…
Borland Groover will break ground on Emerald Coast Endoscopy Center, a new outpatient clinic and ASC in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla., according to a March 17 news release shared with Becker’s. The Jacksonville, Fla.-based gastroenterology practice will break ground March…
ASC leaders far and wide agree payers have the upper hand in reimbursement negotiations, but each has their own take on which particular set of tactics is doing the worst damage to the economics of outpatient surgery. From rates that…
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Stark law, originally enacted in 1989 to curb physician self-referrals, but decades later, many physicians argue the law has calcified into a rigid framework outdated to the way modern healthcare actually works. Designed to protect patients from conflicts of interest,…
Two Missouri physicians are facing a False Claims Act complaint regarding alleged improper billing using the RST-Sanexas neoGEN-series electric stimulation device, the Justice Department said in a March 12 news release. The complaint targets St. Louis, Mo.-based chiropractor Michael Glickert,…
California and Florida led the nation in top-rated ASCs for colonoscopy and endoscopy, according to U.S. News’ “2026 Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers” published March 17. The 2026 U.S. News ratings for ASCs are based on Medicare fee-for-service claims data from…
Two Florida medical offices have sold for $12.85 million in the Tampa Bay area, Tampa Bay Business and Wealth reported March 16. The first sale involves a 18,677-square-foot medical office building in St. Petersburg that sold for $8.25 million. A…
Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners has named Lloyd Dean as an independent director on its board of directors. Mr. Dean previously served as CEO of Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the U.S., and before that…