Provisions in the healthcare law to introduce efficiencies, combat fraud and reduce payments in the Medicare program are expected to save $7.8 billion through next year and $418 billion by 2019, according to a CMS report.
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Ken Pettine, MD, a spine surgeon who co-owns the Loveland (Colo.) Surgery Center, a three-OR ASC specializing in orthopedic and spine surgery, makes four predictions on how the recession and market forces will affect ASCs in the next few years.
Marge Schillaci, RN, MS, administrative director of Surgery Center of Joliet (Ill.), which performs a high volume of colonoscopies, EGD and upper and lower GI diagnostics and screenings, shares three ways her GI-driven ASC has reduced costs over the last…
A former nurse at a Mississippi nursing home has been charged with fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs, according to a news release by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood.
A Miami infusion clinic owner and his brother pleaded guilty to their involvement in a Medicare fraud scheme, according to a news release by the Department of Justice.
Two pharmacists have been sentenced to probation for their involvement in defrauding Medicaid and Tricare, according to a report by the Tampa Tribune.
A New Jersey pharmacy has been ordered to serve one year of probation and pay $730,000 in restitution for overbilling health insurers for brand-name drugs when it actually sold generic brands, according to a report by Asbury Park Press.
As of 2006, the most common ownership structure of an ASC was 100 percent physician-owned (61 percent of ASCs), followed by hospital/physician-owned (16 percent of ASCs) and corporation/physician-owned (11 percent of ASCs), according to data provided by VMG Health in…
The U.S. Attorney's Office has until Sept. 30 to decide if it will intervene in a False Claims lawsuit alleging fraudulent billing practices by an Indiana ASC, hospital and local physicians, according to an Evansville Courier & Press report.
Proponents for North Carolina-based Community Care say the care management model could improve Medicaid care, according to an article by American Medical News.