A Wisconsin-area registered nurse has been charged for allegedly filing approximately $70,000 in false Medicaid claims in 2007 and 2009, according to a Sheboygan Press report.
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A Miami-area ex-couple who founded and operated the fraudulent HIV/AIDS infusion clinic Tendercare Medical Center were sentenced for their roles in a $5.8 million scheme to defraud Medicare, according to a news release by the Department of Justice.
The administrator for New York State's dental benefits plan, Group Health Inc., paid approximately $1.6 million in questionable claims by dentists for scaling and root planing procedures, according to a news release by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
Five Miami residents in connection to several Miami-area home healthcare companies pleaded guilty to various healthcare fraud charges, according to a news release by the Department of Justice.
The owner and operator of Miami-based Courtesy Medical Group pleaded guilty to committing Medicare fraud, including paying kickbacks, according to a news release by the Department of Justice.
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Thomas Wherry, MD, an anesthesiologist, medical director of Health Inventures and principal for Total Anesthesia Solutions, a company dedicated to finding strategic solutions for issues relating to anesthesia care, discusses the emerging trend of ASCs subsidizing or employing anesthesiologists.
Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, Wis., plans to build an ASC in Wauwatosa, Wis., which would place the facility only a few miles from a competing surgery center, according to The Business Journal of Milwaukee.
Developers who proposed an ASC in Salem, Va., are putting the project on hold after Lewis-Gale Medical Center, also in Salem, indicated it would oppose the plans, according to a report in The Roanoke Times.
ASCs offer employees advantages that they could not find in the surgery department in the hospital, says Greg Zoch, a managing director at Kaye/Bassman, an executive search firm for ASCs and other companies. Here he lists five key differences between ASCs…