The United States has filed a complaint against Bay Area Sleep Associates and its owner, alleging the Tampa Bay, Fla.-based companies submitted false claims for payments from multiple federal healthcare programs, according to a news release from the U.S. Department…
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Physicians are balking over a proposal to curb the overuse of MRIs and other advanced imaging in Medicare, according to a Kaiser Health News report.
In a presentation at the 9th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 9, Dotty Bollinger, RN, JD, LHCRM, CASC, chief medical operations officer at Laser Spine Institute, discussed legal trends in infection control.
A multidisciplinary clinical practice guideline, "Polysomnography for Sleep-Disordered Breathing Prior to Tonsillectomy in Children," will be published as a supplement to the July issue of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, according to a news release.
Three ASC eye surgeons with "senior" status at Lawrence & Memorial Hospital in New London, Conn., no longer have to provide on-call coverage to the hospital emergency department, according to The Day report.
Given increased integration activity amongst physicians and hospitals and the increased amount of governmental resources targeting such relationships, we have put together a short piece that is an overview of questions that should be asked from a regulatory and business…
CMS has issued its July 2011 update of the ambulatory surgical center payment system.
Florida Eye Institute Surgicenter has achieved accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, according to a report on TCPalm.com.
Healthmark Industries, which develops products for the sterilization, decontamination, storage and security of surgical instruments and other medical devices and accessories, has announced the effectiveness of its ChannelCheck 3-1 Residual Soil Test Strips was recently verified through a study conducted…
Last Friday, Brett Gosney, CEO of Animas Surgical Hospital in Durango, Colo., spoke about the prognosis of physician-owned hospitals for the next four years at the 9th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management Conference in Chicago. Mr. Gosney is also…