John Gardner, CEO of Yuma (Colo.) District Hospital and secretary and treasurer of the Colorado Hospital Association Board of Trustees, responded to Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter's plan to opt out of a rule requiring physician supervision of anesthesia services in…
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A whole bevy of consumer-friendly provisions in the healthcare reform law kick in on Sept. 23, six months after the legislation was signed, according to a report by Kaiser Health News. Here are a six key points about the new…
To help with the transition to the ICD-10 coding system, CMS has announced a partial code set freeze beginning in Oct. 2011, according to AHA News and other industry reports.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has filed a motion to intervene in a whistleblower suit against pharmaceutical company Pfizer's Wyeth unit for paying illegal kickbacks to physicians and promoting non-FDA approved uses of the organ…
The Arizona Court of Appeals has affirmed a county superior court decision against two surgery centers that argued the state's leading workers' compensation insurer broke the law by using an outside vendor to determine what the ASCs should receive for…
Molly Sandvig, executive director of Physician Hospitals of America, says she will leave her position to become COO of Joint Replacement Hospitals of America, a new for-profit company developing knee- and hip-replacement hospitals to be run by physicians.
Allergan, a pharmaceutical company based in Irvine, Calif., has agreed to pay $600 million for promoting its pharmaceutical drug Botox — commonly used for cosmetic treatment — for uses not approved by the FDA, paying kickbacks to physicians and other…
Scott Becker, JD, CPA, is a healthcare attorney and a partner in the national law firm of McGuireWoods.Q: I am interested to hear about the most common ways ASCs determine and distribute the ASC facility profits among owners. Do owners…
Scott Becker, JD, CPA, is a healthcare attorney and a partner in the national law firm of McGuireWoods.Q: What are the most common ways ASCs determine and distribute the ASC facility profits among owners — do owners buy/have shares and…
During a state survey of Cleburne (Texas) Surgical Center this past spring, Suzette Rieger, RN, clinical coordinator of the ASC, says she and the surveyor reviewed the ASC's infection control checklist.