Ray Grundman, AAAHC surveyor, explains three of the most common deficiencies found during accreditation surveys.
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Amgad Hessein, MD, a pain management physician and anesthesiologist from Newark, N.J., has been arrested on charges he had submitted approximately $52 million in false claims to Medicare and private insurers, according to a New Jersey Newsroom report.
The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses' board of directors have unanimously endorsed several organizations' joint position on immediate-use steam sterilization, previously known as flash sterilization, according to an AORN Connections news report.
Mohammed El-Fallal, a medical assistant employed by two home health agencies in Oak Park, Mich., has been sentenced to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay $2.8 million in restitution for his role in a healthcare fraud scheme, according…
The benefits of and challenges faced by Colorado ASCs are featured in a report by MetroNorth News.
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ASCs frequently don't pay sufficient attention to billing operations, which can result in overwhelmed staff, uncollected money and significant losses, according to Caryl Serbin, president of Serbin Surgery Center Billing. "ASCs are often understaffed or billing personnel are inexperienced and…
Graham Cherrington, executive vice president-operations for NovaMed, says the days of "home run" ideas that will double ASC revenue have passed, but there are plenty of ways surgery centers can increase their revenue 10-25 percent and have a significant impact…
The following white paper was written by Blayne Rush, president of Ambulatory Alliances. These are the opinions of the author and not of Becker's ASC Review. Caveat emptor! No, caveat venditor! Buyer beware! No, seller beware! In 2008,…
The New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Co. praised changes to the state's Personal Injury Protection fee schedule, which limited the amount ASCs can collect for such cases to 300 percent of Medicare reimbursement, and indicated an intent to push harder for…