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Marietta (Ohio) Surgery Center recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary, and used the opportunity to help a local 9-year-old girl with an inoperable medical condition.
Frequency of Narcotic and Pharmacy Audits: Q&A With Sheldon Sones of Sheldon S. Sones and Associates
Sheldon S. Sones, RPh, FASCP, is president of Sheldon S. Sones and Associates, a pharmacy and accreditation consulting firm based in Newington, Conn. Q: How often should we conduct narcotic and pharmacy audits? Sheldon Sones: The requirement for…
Two Los Angeles physicians — Rodney Barron, MD, and Eleanor Arthur, MD — were arrested on charges the pair had led a $5 million Medicare scam that included paying homeless patients to undergo unnecessary treatments that were later billed to…
A surgeon from Newton, Iowa, has been sentenced to six months and ordered to pay restitution after being convicted on 31 counts of healthcare fraud, according to a Chicago Tribune news report.
Manuel J. Fernandez, MD, an internist from Miami, has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay more than $656,000 in restitution for committing Medicaid fraud, according to a Crestview News Bulletin report.
Ken Beverly, former president and CEO of Archbold Medical Center in Thomasville, Ga., has been accused of falsifying documents to the Georgia Department of Community Health in order to pocket $9 million in Medicaid funds that were not rightfully due,…
American Anesthesiology, a subsidiary of MEDNAX, has announced the acquisition of Greensboro Anesthesia Physicians, a physician group practice that provides patient services at three hospitals in the Moses Cone Health System and two ASCs in Greensboro, N.C., according to a…
Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital has begun construction on a new freestanding ASC on its campus.
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