The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its annual regulatory update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (the proposed 2011 update), including rules implementing key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended…
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A free, revised manual on professional liability for anesthesiologists is now available for download from the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
A woman who managed two Florida surgery centers pleaded guilty to stealing more than $27,000 from the facilities, according to a Tampa Tribune article.
The owner of a New Jersey home health care agency and his wife pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicaid out of $800,000, according to a news release by the New Jersey Attorney General.
A former employee of Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Va., was sentenced to jail and ordered to pay restitution for bribery, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek article.