For physicians and hospitals pursuing a common goal of quality, financial gain and patient satisfaction, Regent Surgical Health CDO Jeffrey Simmons says joint ventures may be the answer. In a June editorial for Becker's ASC Review, Mr. Simmons talked about…
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The U.S. market for gastrointestinal endoscopy devices includes videoscopes, enteral feeding devices, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography devices, hemostasis devices, biopsy forceps, stents, virtual colonoscopy systems, esophageal dilation devices, small bowel capsule endoscopes, polypectomy snares, Barrett’s esophagus ablation devices and retrieval devices,…
Paul Duck, president and CEO of Coastal Orthopedics, which has three facilities throughout the Gulf coast of Florida, assumed his leadership position in January and led the organization to a substantial financial turnaround. Within a short amount of time after…
CMS has approved the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities for continued deeming authority for ASCs, according to the accreditor.
Symbion has reported a 20 percent increase in revenue for the second quarter of 2010, according to the company's SEC filing and a Nashville Post report.
A Perrysburg, Ohio-based family practitioner has pleaded guilty to 11 healthcare fraud charges, including charges related to filing false claims to insurance companies, according to a Toledo Blade report.
The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services recently reported a 25 percent non-compliance rate with CMS standards that prohibit multiple uses of single-dose medication vials. Such standards were set in place in order to better control infection outbreaks.
America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group of health insurers, spent $2.3 million on lobbying in the second quarter of 2010, which covers the three months immediately following the passing of healthcare reform at the end of March, according to…
Youngstown, Ohio-based Forum Health has agreed to pay nearly $2.9 million to reimburse the government for overbilling Medicare from 2003 to 2009, according to a report by The Vindicator.
Jeff Sapp, partner with ASC management company Innovative Surgical Solutions, comments on a new study by Jean M. Mitchell, PhD, published in the Archives of Surgery attempting to show physicians with ownership in ASCs or specialty hospitals were more likely…