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The Joint Commission, through its not-for-profit affiliate the Center for Transforming Healthcare, has announced it has identified three ASCs to participate in a pilot program focusing on wrong site surgery.
The West Wilshire Medical Surgical Center has received accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, according to a news release by the ASC.
A cardiologist and five associates from an Ohio-based clinic have been charged with conspiring to unlawfully distribute prescription medications, according to a news release by the Department of Justice.
A licensed practical nurse working for a Miami-based home health agency has pleaded guilty to falsifying patient files to make it appear that they qualified for home health care and therapy services, when in fact they did not quality or…
An employee of a Miami-based rehabilitation clinic has pleaded guilty to falsifying information in patient files in a scheme to defraud Medicare, according to a news release by the Department of Justice.
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Ken Pettine, MD, a spine surgeon who co-owns the Loveland (Colo.) Surgery Center, a three-OR ASC specializing in orthopedic and spine surgery, offers four predictions on how healthcare reform will affect ASCs.
The U.S. Senate approved $16.1 billion to help the states pay Medicaid bills next year and sent the measure to the House, which is expected to come back from summer recess and vote on it next Tuesday, according to Politico.
During his decade with outpatient surgical facility operator Symbion in Nashville, Tenn., Michael Weaver has learned how to develop successful long-term partnerships and joint-venture collaborations with physicians. In a 2009 interview with Becker's ASC Review, he said hospitals, doctors and…