San Antonio, Texas-based Christus Santa Rosa Health Care and New Braunfels (Texas) Surgical Center have joined together to provide more extensive outpatient care to the community, according to a report in The Herald-Zeitung.
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The Muskegon (Mich.) Surgery Center, a joint venture between Mercy Health Partners and the Orthopedic Associates of Muskegon, will open for business in fall, according to a report by the Muskegon Chronicle.
A 14,000 square-foot, $3.9 million orthopedic and sports medicine surgery center is planned for construction in Bellevue, Wis., according to a report in the Press-Gazette.
Jose Luis Perez of Golden Beach, Fla., and Reinaldo Guerra of Miami have been indicted in a $179 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to a report in the South Florida Business Journal.
The Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital has paid $3.2 million to Medicare to settle allegations that the hospital improperly billed the program for unnecessary inpatient hospital admissions from April 1998 to April 2006, according to a report in the New Haven…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released three National Coverage Determinations, which state that CMS will not pay for surgical errors.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released its proposed payment rate and policy changes for ambulatory surgery centers and hospital outpatient departments for Jan. 1, 2010, according to a CMS news release.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has several announced proposed changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2010, which are expected to reduce payment rates to physicians by 21.5 percent, according to a CMS news release.
The 12 hospitals and 21 surgery centers in Rhode Island have agreed to a new surgical protocol to prevent wrong-site surgery errors, according to a report in The Providence Journal.
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Md., has agreed to pay $2.75 million to the United States Government to settle allegations that the hospital submitted false claims to federal healthcare programs, according to a news release from the United…