Toe Myint, MD, a physician from Bloomfield Hills, Mich., was sentenced to 72 months in prison and ordered to pay $3.1 million for his role in a $4.2 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to a joint Department of Justice and…
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Two Houston-area physicians, Arun Sharma, MD, and Kiran Sharma, MD, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy and healthcare fraud for their roles in operating fraudulent medical clinics and have agreed to prison terms of 15 years and eight years, respectively, according…
Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program has developed new patient safety standards, which have been endorsed by the National Quality Forum, according to an HFAP news release.
Scientists at the Duke Clinical Research Institute have found the cost of imaging studies for cancer patients covered by Medicare is rising twice as fast as the overall costs of cancer care among those patients, according to a Duke University…
Somnia Anesthesia Services has released a new white paper entitled, "A Focus on Clinical Quality Excellence in Anesthesia Services," which discusses trends and challenges facing hospital executives and how focusing on clinical quality excellence in anesthesia can help to maximize…
After several years of relative quiet on the hospital merger & acquisition front, 2010 may be the year things turn around, say those on the front lines. Jim Shannon, executive vice president of development for LHP Hospital Group, a privately…
The average single-specialty ASC performed 3,124 cases in 2008, according to SDI Health. Here are the average annual cases for single-specialty ASCs by the five highest-performing specialties.
Title: Keeping Your Surgeons Satisfied — The Role of Anesthesia Management in Meeting Their Demands and Optimizing the OR
Independent laboratories currently eligible to bill for the technical component of physician pathology services whether patients are inpatient or outpatient are allowed to continue to bill for their services through Dec. 31, 2010, according to the Centers for Medicare and…
Here are the 2010 Medicare reimbursement rates for 11 nerve block procedures performed in the ASC setting.