Here are 5 statistics on financial and operational risk factors in ambulatory surgery centers, according to VMG Health's ValueDriver ASC Survey 2011. In compiling the survey, VMG spoke with leaders of the 20 of the largest ASC management and operating…
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Implementing ICD-10/CPT-10 is the top financial IT priority for healthcare provider organizations in 2011, according to the 22nd Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey, sponsored by Citrix.
Chicago — Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, the national association for surgery centers, and ASC Communications, publisher of Becker's ASC Review and Becker's Orthopedic & Spine Review, announce Mike Joe Flower, healthcare futurist and thought leader, as a keynote speaker at…
Karen Howey, administrator of Matrix Surgery Center in Saginaw, Mich., recommends talking to your physicians — especially those who have recently joined your facility — about the reliability of their preference cards. "We often say, 'We'll make sure you have…
Jerry F. Wells, the former CFO of Columbia, S.C.-based UCI Medical Affiliates, has been sentenced to 6.5 years in federal prison for embezzling $2.9 million from the company, according to a report from The State. Mr. Wells must also repay…
John Edward McKoy, the owner of two Philadelphia healthcare facilities, has been indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in connection with a scheme to defraud insurer United Health Care Corporation of more than $321,000, according to a news release from…
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In a letter to OIG inspector general David R. Levinson, Rep. Wally Herger (R-Calif.), chairman of the subcommittee on health, asked the Department of Health and Human Services to analyze the impact of ASCs on Medicare expenditures and reconsider the…