Glen R. Justice, MD, an oncologist and former director of the cancer center at Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center in Fountain Valley, Calif., has pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicare and other insurers by charging the payors for cancer medications that…
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Bernard McDonnell, DO, a retired physician and current surveyor for Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program, says that while a vast majority of the GI facilities he surveys do a good job of adhering to standards that protect patient safety, the routine…
Edward J. Gorz, CPA, accounting manager for MedHQ, a professional employer organization and business office outsourcing service for ASCs and other providers, provides guidance for six areas ASCs should focus within their supplies and labor costs to identify savings opportunities.
A federal jury has found Tuomey Hospital in Sumter, S.C., part of Tuomey Health System, guilty of violating the Stark Act for providing kickbacks to physicians in return for referrals at the hospital, according to a report by the Sumter…
The recently enacted healthcare reform legislation will affect all healthcare stakeholders — consumers, providers and employers — but sorting out the winners from the losers is an inexact science at best at this point. For physicians, especially those in specialty…
Cleveland Medical Devices has finalized an agreement to license its anesthesia monitoring — its NeuroSense line — and seizure detection technologies through Cleveland Heights, Ohio-based NeuroWave Systems, according to a report in Crain's Cleveland Business.
The five states with the most surgery centers represented 38.4 percent of the total surgery center market in 2009. Here are the top five states and their share of the ASC market, according to SDI Health. For a list of…
Here are the median gross charges and net revenue per GI/endoscopy case by region, according to VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.
Here are the average and median EBITDA margins by percentage of net revenue for surgery centers that perform more than 50 percent of their case volume in orthopedics, according to VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.
According to the American Society of Anesthesiologists, AAs are non-physician anesthetists and are trained extensively in the delivery of safe and high quality anesthesia care and advanced patient monitoring techniques under the direction of a licensed anesthesiologist. Here are four…