Ridgeview Medical Center broke ground on Two Twelve Medical Center in Chaska, Minn., which will feature clinics, urgent care and outpatient surgery services, among other healthcare services, according to a release from Ridgeview Medical Center.
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Current healthcare reform legislation includes provisions that would increase efforts to investigate Medicare and Medicaid fraud, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
GENASCIS, a leading revenue cycle management and business intelligence resource for ASCs, has launched a new microsite, CompareMyASC.com, to provide ASCs a free comparative analysis of their revenue cycle performance, according to a GENASCIS news release.
U.S. Senate leadership reportedly has reduced the proposed levy on medical device makers in the health reform bill from $40 billion to between $15 billion and $20 billion over 10 years, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
The recent discussions of healthcare reform have never been more interesting. This article briefly examines positions taken by several newspapers and their readers with respect to healthcare reform.
Licensed physical therapist Syed Aziz of Troy, Mich., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Detroit to participating in a conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program for approximately $817,000, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release.
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced the creation of FAIR Health, new non-profit company, and an upstate research network headquartered at Syracuse University that will develop a new independent database for consumer out-of-network reimbursement and a new Web…
The Medical Center of Southwest Texas is starting construction on an outpatient surgery center in Port Arthur, Texas, according to a release from Urban Constructors, the construction company working on the project.
Palm Coast (Fla.) Surgery Center has become a part of Florida Hospital Flagler in Palm Coast, Fla., according to a report in the Flagler News-Journal.
The president has aggressively marketed the support of certain industry groups such as the pharmaceutical industry, the AMA and the AHA to help sell healthcare reform. He has used their pledges of support, which came in exchange for price protection…