America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group of health insurers, spent $2.3 million on lobbying in the second quarter of 2010, which covers the three months immediately following the passing of healthcare reform at the end of March, according to…
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Youngstown, Ohio-based Forum Health has agreed to pay nearly $2.9 million to reimburse the government for overbilling Medicare from 2003 to 2009, according to a report by The Vindicator.
Jeff Sapp, partner with ASC management company Innovative Surgical Solutions, comments on a new study by Jean M. Mitchell, PhD, published in the Archives of Surgery attempting to show physicians with ownership in ASCs or specialty hospitals were more likely…
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Jack Egnatinsky, MD, is one of three medical directors at the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care and has been an active surveyor with the organization since 1996.
Bellin Health in Green Bay, Wis., has announced the opening of Bellin Health Orthopedic Surgery Center and partner Orthopedic Sports Medicine Specialists.
Jon Vick, president of ASCs Inc., a firm in Valley Center, Calif., which advises surgery center owners on strategic partnering and joint ventures, has seen has client base pick up 50 percent over last year's level.
Even when the real estate market was soaring, David J. Shuffler, managing partner of Practice Valuation Group was a stalwart advocate of leasing real estate for an ASC rather than owning it. Here the Asheville, N.C., valuation guru explains why…
Riverside Ambulatory Surgery Center, owned and operated by Riverside Medical Center and board-certified surgeons in Kankakee, Ill., serving the south suburban counties of Chicago and East Central Illinois. Riverside Ambulatory Surgery Center offers world-class outpatient surgery in a fast and efficient…
Anesthesiologist Wallace Reed, MD, cofounder of the nation's first ASC in Phoenix, Ariz., has received the 2010 Health Care Heroes Lifetime Achievement Award from the Phoenix Business Journal, according to a news release from the Ambulatory Surgery Foundation.