Houston residents Bassey Monday Idiong, Linda Eteimo Ere Kendabie and Modupe Babanumi each have pleaded guilty in connection with their roles in an "arthritis kit" Medicare fraud scheme, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release.
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In a rare showing of bipartisan agreement, the U.S. House voted 406-19 to repeal health plans' exemption from federal antitrust laws, according to a release from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
A group from Village Green, a senior living community in Gilroy, Calif., has proposed the construction of 5,300 sq.-foot ambulatory surgery center, along with a skilled-nursing facility, according to a report in The Gilroy Dispatch.
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey will implement policy and procedural changes in regard to how services submitted with certain modifiers are reimbursed, effective May 17, according to a report by the American Academy of Professional Coders.
The FDA's Office of Compliance has issued a letter to endoscope manufacturers regarding labeling on reusable medical devices that references the STERIS System 1 processor.
Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Del., has agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle claims made by a whistleblower that the health system allegedly paid kickback to neurologists for referring patients to its Wilmington hospital, according to a report…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released updates to the availability of propofol injections on its Web site.
George Steven Kooshian, an AIDS physician based in La Quinta, Calif., was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to federal healthcare fraud charges for "subdosing" patients by administering doses of medicine that contained less than the…
ASCs Inc., an adviser for surgery centers, endoscopy centers and surgical hospitals, has announced the closing of an acquisition transaction for Mid-Peninsula Endoscopy Center in San Mateo, Calif.
Q: When an ASC goes in-network after being out-of-network, what's the typical decline in reimbursement per procedure? What is the typical bump in number of cases?