The recent discussions of healthcare reform have never been more interesting. This article briefly examines positions taken by several newspapers and their readers with respect to healthcare reform.
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Licensed physical therapist Syed Aziz of Troy, Mich., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Detroit to participating in a conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program for approximately $817,000, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release.
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced the creation of FAIR Health, new non-profit company, and an upstate research network headquartered at Syracuse University that will develop a new independent database for consumer out-of-network reimbursement and a new Web…
The Medical Center of Southwest Texas is starting construction on an outpatient surgery center in Port Arthur, Texas, according to a release from Urban Constructors, the construction company working on the project.
Palm Coast (Fla.) Surgery Center has become a part of Florida Hospital Flagler in Palm Coast, Fla., according to a report in the Flagler News-Journal.
The president has aggressively marketed the support of certain industry groups such as the pharmaceutical industry, the AMA and the AHA to help sell healthcare reform. He has used their pledges of support, which came in exchange for price protection…
Here are eight facility expenses and statistics for surgery centers by region, according to VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.
1. Anesthesia is not reimbursed for many GI procedures. ASCs should be aware that payors are increasingly unwilling to separately reimburse for anesthesia services provided during GI procedures. According to William Hoffman, MD, corporate medical director of Anesthesia Healthcare Partners,…
1. Anesthesia is not reimbursed for many GI procedures. ASCs should be aware that payors are increasingly unwilling to separately reimburse for anesthesia services provided during GI procedures. According to William Hoffman, MD, corporate medical director of Anesthesia Healthcare Partners,…
1. There are just over 32,900 anesthesiologists practicing in the United States. Anesthesiologists represent 5.2 percent of the 633,000 practicing physicians in the country, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09.