Cornerstone Healthcare Partners, a developer and operator of ASCs, diagnostic imaging centers and urgent care centers, has signed a contract with the Orthopedic Institute, in Oklahoma City, Okla., to manage its Tower Surgery Center and Orthopedic Hospital. Under the agreement,…
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Samer Narouze, MD, has been named director of the pain management department at Summa Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, according to a story in the Cuyahoga Falls News-Press.
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Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton (N.J.) has agreed to a $6.35 million settlement to resolve allegations that it inflated charges to Medicare patients to obtain higher reimbursements from the federal program.
Mountain View Regional Hospital in Casper, Wyo., a physician-owned surgical hospital, is planning a $2-$2.5 million expansion after only two years of operations, according to a report in the Billings Gazette.
The Senate version of the health reform bill, passed by the House on Sunday and expected to be signed into law by President Obama on Tuesday, will halt new construction and expansion of physician-owned hospitals, according to a statement by…
The House of Representatives on Sunday passed on a vote of 219-212 the same version of the health reform bill the U.S. Senate passed in Dec. 2009, opening the way for full enactment of the bill, according to the Wall…
Surgical Notes, a nationwide provider of medical transcription, coding, electronic medical records and other value-added IT services for ASCs, has launched a new informational video for its VMR Express software application.
The proposed $28.3 billion New Jersey Budget introduced by Governor Chris Christie earlier this week includes a provision to lift the $200,000 cap on the 2.95 percent assessment on ambulatory surgical facility operating revenues in the state, according to Mark…
The House of Representatives' newly released draft reconciliation bill makes two key changes in the proposed ban on physician-owned hospitals in Congress' health reform legislation, according to a report by Physician Hospitals in America.