Richard Ellison, MD, medical director for the Park West Surgical Center in Akron, is the new president of the Ohio State Medical Association, according to Med City News.
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Mountain View Hospital in Idaho Falls, Idaho, is partnering with Nashville, Tenn.-based Symbion Healthcare, according to a report by KPVI News Idaho Falls.
Q: How many days generally need to go by before a second procedure is fully reimbursed? For example, if a patient has an EGD today, when can colonoscopy be scheduled for 100 percent reimbursement?
Edward Frech, MD, and Michael Sossenheimer, MD, of Mountain West Gastroenterology and Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City fielded questions on colonoscopy and colon cancer as part of a hotline on April 10, according to a report in the…
CPT 29220 (strapping of low back) has been deleted from the American Medical Association's CPT 2010 Professional Edition, effective Jan. 1, 2010, according to a report from the American Chiropractic Association.
A new study from the RAND Corp. investigated the characteristics and demographics in the labor market for anesthesiologists and certified registered nurse anesthetists and found variations across urban, rural and regional markets.
A team from Juntendo University Nerima Hospital in Tokyo, Japan, used a modified endoscopic submucosal dissection technique to remove a large ileal lipoma from a 62 year-old man, according to an article published in the April 7 issue of the…
Sylvester Ijewere, an owner and operator of a durable medical equipment company in Los Angeles, pleaded guilty to submitting $471,345 in false claims to Medicare between June 2007 and October 2009, according to a U.S. Justice Department news release.
The U.S. Senate overcame a Republican filibuster Monday evening against a bill containing a one-month delay of the 21.3 percent cut in Medicare physician fees, allowing for a final vote on Thursday or Friday, according to the The Hill.
Over the past 10 years, ASCs have faced numerous changes. These have included areas such as regulation, reimbursement and market dynamics. While individual states have certainly experienced their own noteworthy changes and challenges, the seven "stories" presented here represent some…