The California Senate Appropriations Committee passed a measure 6-3 that would give the state's insurance commissioner the authority to modify or reject "excessive" health insurance rate increases, according to an Insurance News Net report.
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The Ohio Supreme Court recently set two new execution dates, despite uncertainties about how the executions will be performed as the state suffers from drug shortages, according to a Mansfield News Journal report.
ePAY Healthcare, a provider of personalized self-service payment applications for hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers, has rolled its patient payment services to the Mirage Endoscopy Center, a Health Inventures-managed facility in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
Troy Clifton is vice president of sales and marketing for Encircle Healthcare, a provider of web-based automation and integration services for healthcare organizations. Q: For ambulatory surgery centers to remain competitive and profitable, they need to regularly find ways to…
Provena United Samaritans Medical Center in Danville, Ill., was in danger of losing its Medicare status after a patient recently suffered burns during surgery but may keep its status following a successful re-survey by state inspectors, according to a Commercial-News…
John Bookwalter, MD, a thoracic surgeon, has been charged with 67 counts of unprofessional conduct, including alleged improper prescribing, according to a Reformer report.
A pediatrician from New York’s Orleans County was sentenced on federal charges to two years’ probation after he pleaded guilty to submitting false claims to a federal program, according to a Daily News report. Ghulam Mustafa, MD, admitted in U.S.…
HHS is reviewing a number of regulatory requirements that impact surgery centers, including a regulation that requires ASCs to provide certain notices to patients prior to the date of surgery, according to an ASCA release.
Congressman Dave Camp (R-MI), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, recently toured Great Lakes Bay Surgery & Endoscopy Center in Midland, Mich., according to a Booth Mid-Michigan report hosted on the Michigan Live website.
St. Edward Mercy Health System, based in Fort Smith, Ark., and a member of St. Louis-based Sisters of Mercy, plans to open a new orthopedic surgery center in Fort Smith, according to a The City Wire report.