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CMS has issued updated payment rates for selected separately payable drugs and biologicals and provided rates and descriptors for newly created Level II HCPCS codes for drugs and biologicals in its first quarterly update to the ASC payment system.

The Colorado Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (CASCA) released the results of the nation's first Quality Research Initiative stat survey of ASC activities, including procedures performed, nurse to patient ratios, infection rates and patient satisfaction.

Q: What are the major challenges ASCs are facing with regard to employing anesthesiologists?

Anesthetix Management, a provider of hospital-based anesthesiology and pain management services to hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers, has accepted a minority equity investment from Summit Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm experienced in growing healthcare companies.

A New Orleans Hospital, Touro Infirmary, will pay $1.75 million to settle allegations that it submitted false Medicare claims, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

New requirements of initial self-disclosure of Medicare or Medicaid fraud have been issued by the Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General Daniel Levinson in an open letter. The fuller disclosure to the Office of Inspector General will be…

Claiming it has lost tens of millions of dollars due to Alcon's alleged unfair practices, Synergetics USA, a leading microsurgical device company, has filed a civil, antitrust lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New…

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) take steps to establish greater consistency and compatibility of the data gathered on healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).

Several lawmakers in Nevada plan to introduce legislation which would require ASCs to be accredited or inspected by an organization other than the state’s Bureau of Licensure and Certification, according to published reports.

Scott Becker recently spoke about new business challenges facing surgery centers with the Chicago Tribune’s Bruce Japsen on XM Radio’s ReachMD station. Scott was a featured participant in the station’s ongoing “Clinician’s Roundtable” series.