The North Carolina Medical Society, along with other state physician groups, oppose a contract addendum sent by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina that the physicians say would allow the insurance provider to change fees at any time and…
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Nationally, just 1-3 percent of spine surgeries are performed in an outpatient center, but Robert S. Bray Jr., MD, believes that rate will climb in the next decade as surgeons, payors and patients alike discover the lower costs and high…
Mark B. Kabins, MD, a Las Vegas spine surgeon, has pleaded guilty to "concealing fraud" in an investigation of attorneys who allegedly took kickbacks from physicians for settling malpractice lawsuits, according to a statement from the Justice Department.
UAB Medical ASC in Bessemer, Ala., has selected Birmingham, Ala.-based Practice Partners in Healthcare as its corporate partner, according to a Practice Partners news release.
Construction has begun on a 4,600-square-foot, $7.5 million eye surgery center in Tampa, Fla., according to a Newsom Eye & Laser news release.
The Cleveland Clinic recently broke ground on a new $98 million health and surgery center in Avon, Ohio, according to a report by The Morning Journal.
The law of unintended consequences usually means that the outcome of some action is not the outcome intended by those advocating the action — a result most often associated with the unintended results of legislation or regulation. We may just…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that Iowa's Medicaid program is the first to receive federal matching funds for planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health record incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act…
Twelve specialty societies, including the American Society of Anesthesiologists and others whose members include pain physicians, have joined together to maintain coverage for facet joint injection procedures for Medicare beneficiaries in the areas covered by Noridian Administrative Service, according to…
Three studies in the November issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, highlighted new findings related to asymptomatic women with Barrett's esophagus, the accuracy of endoscopic ultrasound-fine needle aspiration in…