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Congressional Democrats are ready to scrap a proposed five-year Medicare physician fee fix, meaning that Congress is back to passing month-by-month patches to keep a looming 21.3 percent fee cut from going into effect, according to a report by Politico.
In a tenuous economy with declining reimbursements, many ASCs are simply hunkering down to see how the healthcare reform landscape will shape up before making any bold moves. Still, says Joyce Deno, chief operations officer for the Eastern Region of…
Patients can now learn about the quality of care provided at Illinois hospitals on a new website hosted by the Illinois Department of Health.
Here are the sizes of ASCs by their total number of affiliated physicians, according to SDI data based on 81,597 physicians performing procedures at ASCs.
Partnership or operating agreement risk relate to the terms by which an ASC is governed and managed. Here are four operating agreement risk factors and relative importance ASC operators weigh on each, according to VMG Health's ValueDriver ASC Risk Assessment…
U.S. Attorney Tim Heaphy announced a new task force to target healthcare fraud in Western Virginia and the Roanoke area, according to a report from WJZ News.
A study presented at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's 26th annual meeting investigated methods for reducing the estimated $1 billion spent annually on pain care treatment in the United States and found that intrathecal drug delivery systems could save…
The American Academy of Pain Medicine released a statement voicing strong support of certain components of the healthcare reform legislation that will "improve the quality of life for people who suffer with chronic and acute pain," according to an AAPM…
Palm Drive Hospital in Sebastopol, Calif., exited bankruptcy on Wednesday with the sale of $11 million in bonds to pay off creditors and plan improvements, according to a report by the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.