In the current economy, patients are finding it more and more difficult to pay their bills — so much so that they often put off non-elective procedures because their high-deductible insurance plans require a hefty financial contribution. Three ASC collections…
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A family practitioner from New Orleans and the owner of a Baker, La.-based medical equipment company have pleaded guilty to conspiring to submit more than $775,000 fraudulent claims to Medicare, according to a news report from The Advertiser.
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has announced that Robert T. Van Hook will serve as its interim CEO effective Oct. 18 as the association conducts a search for a successor to CEO Kathy Warye.
Here are 10 statistics about compensation of registered nurses, based on May 2009 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wages.
Hospitals today are increasingly employing physicians for a variety of reasons, including the desire to gain more control over referrals and to be prepared for movement towards the accountable care model. However, some specialties are markedly more sought after than…
A new ASC for Corcoran (Calif.) District Hospital will receive $12 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, according to a news release from the United States Department of Agriculture.
What is the right type of physician partner to recruit for your ASC? Larry Taylor, present and CEO of Practice Partners in Healthcare, describes four considerations when seeking new physicians.
Cape Cod Healthcare, based in Falmouth, Mass., has announced it has acquired physician-owned Bayside Surgical Center in North Falmouth.
As of 2006, the most common ownership structure of an ASC was 100 percent physician-owned (61 percent of ASCs), followed by hospital/physician-owned (16 percent of ASCs) and corporation/physician-owned (11 percent of ASCs), according to data provided by VMG Health in…
A new surgery center is part of a $210 million expansion project for New York Hospital Queens in Flushing, according to a news release from the organization.