Here are five things to know about ASC debt guarantees and related fees for ASCs, according to HealthCare Appraisers' 2010 ASC Valuation Survey, which includes responses from 17 organizations representing over 500 surgery centers throughout the country.
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Michael Duronio is vice president of business development for Anesthesia Staffing Consultants. Q: What is a mistake you have seen surgery centers make that hindered an effective relationship with it anesthesiologists and what could the surgery center have done to…
Claudia B. Gruss, MD, who practices gastroenterology and internal medicine with Arbor Medical Group in Wilton, Conn., has bee re-elected president of the Fairfield County Medical Association, according to a report in The Redding Pilot.
A Wisconsin-area registered nurse has been charged for allegedly filing approximately $70,000 in false Medicaid claims in 2007 and 2009, according to a Sheboygan Press report.
A Miami-area ex-couple who founded and operated the fraudulent HIV/AIDS infusion clinic Tendercare Medical Center were sentenced for their roles in a $5.8 million scheme to defraud Medicare, according to a news release by the Department of Justice.
The administrator for New York State's dental benefits plan, Group Health Inc., paid approximately $1.6 million in questionable claims by dentists for scaling and root planing procedures, according to a news release by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
Five Miami residents in connection to several Miami-area home healthcare companies pleaded guilty to various healthcare fraud charges, according to a news release by the Department of Justice.
The owner and operator of Miami-based Courtesy Medical Group pleaded guilty to committing Medicare fraud, including paying kickbacks, according to a news release by the Department of Justice.
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Thomas Wherry, MD, an anesthesiologist, medical director of Health Inventures and principal for Total Anesthesia Solutions, a company dedicated to finding strategic solutions for issues relating to anesthesia care, discusses the emerging trend of ASCs subsidizing or employing anesthesiologists.