Here are eight statistics about a surgery center's operating expenses per case performed, from VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.
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Fred Harder, CEO of Hemet, Calif.-based Valley Health System, has resigned, just days before the hospital was due to report its financial status in bankruptcy court, according to a report by the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care is currently seeking public comment for proposed revisions to its standards for 2010, according to the AAAHC.
North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., received the highest payment from CMS's nationwide pay-for-performance (P4P) demonstration project, according a release from North Shore-LIJ Health System, the hospital's parent corporation.
Here is the average payor mix for surgery centers as a percentage of gross charges, based on average net revenue, from VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.
More than 135 area physicians will become part-owners of 290-bed Lancaster (Pa.) Regional Medical Center in an unusual arrangement to be finalized this month, according to the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal.
Reinaldo Guerra of Miami, Fla., pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit Medicare fraud and one count of Medicare fraud, according to a news release from the United States Attorney General's Office of the Southern District of Florida.
A fourth executive from West Chester, Pa.-based Synthes pleaded guilty to charges originating with illegal clinical trials the company performed on Norian XR, a bone cement, in which three patients died, according to a report from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Christine C. Joseph has been named as the clinical administrator for Renaissance Surgical Arts at Newport Harbor in Costa Mesa, Calif., a new, multi-specialty outpatient surgery center committed to advancing surgical technologies and patient care, according to a news release…
The compensation of hospital and health system top executives varies greatly and is dependent, largely, on the size and type of the institution the executive is leading as well as the experience of the executive. However, there are several recent…