According to Amy Mowles, president and CEO of Mowles Medical Management, ASCs can improve their contracts with payors by simply doing adequate research about costs and regulations beforehand. Your ASC may be able to ask for higher fees if a…
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The HHS' Office of Inspector General has issued an advisory opinion regarding a 50-50 partnership between a health system and a physician group, both in a position to refer business to one another, to develop an ambulatory care center. The…
Question from orthopedic surgeon: Do you see, or sense, a movement by government or big (medical) business to legislate or eliminate the independent medical practitioner/business? This was asked by one of our orthopedic physicians. He thought you might know.
Connie Casey, administrator at Northpoint Surgery Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., discusses three ways the surgery center has worked with its group purchasing organization to drive down some of the center's biggest costs.
Forest Pharmaceuticals, based in St. Louis, has agreed to pay more than $313 million to settle allegations of paying illegal kickbacks in the form of expensive meals, entertainment and cash payments disguised as grants or consulting fees to physicians prescribing…
U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson has agreed to hear a lawsuit by 20 state Attorneys General against the healthcare reform law, according to a Reuters report.
Marietta, Ga.-based WellStar Health Systems has agreed to pay the state of Georgia nearly $2.4 million to settle a Medicaid billing investigation for both inpatient and outpatient services at five WellStar hospitals — Cobb Memorial Hospital, WellStar Kennestone Hospital ,…
Goshen (Ind.) Health System has selected Wolters Kluwer Health's ProVation MD software for use in Goshen General Hospital, according to a news release.
McKesson's stock jumped 5.4 percent on Wednesday after the company said it expected to hit fiscal-year guidance, according to the Wall Street Journal and industry reports.
Assuming the Republicans win big in the Nov. 2 Congressional elections, can the healthcare reform law be repealed, defunded or watered down in some way?