Hatboro, Pa.-based William A. Horn, MD & Associates has been acquired by Dermatology Partners, a physician-led dermatology group serving the Mid-Atlantic region, according to an Oct. 23 news release shared with Becker’s. The deal takes effect Nov. 1. William Horn,…
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Christopher Harwood, owner of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based telemedicine company TelevisitMD, was sentenced Oct. 23 to 20 years in prison for leading a $46.2 million Medicare fraud conspiracy that ran for more than six years, according to an Oct. 23 Department…
A Colorado man who owned a New Jersey allergy practice has been indicted on charges that he helped bill Medicare and private insurers for allergy shots that no physician prepared or oversaw, according to an Oct. 23 news release from…
Some spine ASCs have stopped paying for implants by the screw. Frank Phillips, MD, a spine surgeon at Chicago-based Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush, said his group’s ASCs pay vendors one fixed price per procedure, no matter what hardware goes in.…
The North Carolina Healthcare Association and four other industry groups have filed a friend-of-the-court brief at the North Carolina Court of Appeals, The Carolina Journal reported Oct. 23. The brief defends the state’s certificate-of-need law against a constitutional challenge from…
Ophthalmologist J. Hunter Aultman, MD, plans to open an eye practice in Vicksburg, Miss., before year-end, the Vicksburg Post reported. The practice will operate in a building now under renovation. Dr. Aultman will treat eye diseases and perform cataract surgery.…
Patrick McEneaney, DPM, always planned to own a practice. He didn’t plan on doing it five years out of residency. Dr. McEneaney was working for a practice when its owner gave him a choice: buy it, or watch it go…
Two Nashville-based Lipscomb University faculty members, Todd Christian and Joseph Parrish, became the first certified anesthesiologist assistants to manage anesthesia cases in Tennessee operating rooms on Oct. 20. The cases took place at HCA Centennial Medical Center in Nashville. They…
New Brunswick, N.J.-based St. Peter’s Healthcare System’s Oct. 14 lawsuit against West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health and former board member Maureen Cernadas, MD, is about one OB-GYN group in central New Jersey. It also shows how health systems compete for…
As publicly traded companies and private equity-backed platforms expand their ASC footprints, Daniel Tasset said the trend is moving healthcare in the wrong direction. Mr. Tasset is founder, CEO and executive chairman of Leawood, Kan.-based NueHealth, which develops and manages…