One frequently cited solution for two underperforming ASCs serving the same patient population is to close one of them and combine operations at the other, but this isn't as easy as it would appear, says Bill Heath, chief development officer…
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Bill Heath, chief development officer at Practice Partners in Healthcare, helps turn around underperforming ASCs. Mr. Heath says these facilities are not "train wrecks" in serious financial trouble but they do have a few fundamental problems that he sees time…
Charles J. Jacobson, president and CEO of Jacobson Consulting in Dunedin, Fla., has developed many ASCs in his long career. Identifying a recent uptick in sales of ASCs to hospitals, Mr. Jacobson presents the chief reasons why physicians sell ASCs…
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has announced the resignation of CEO Kathy Warye.
Gayle Lowe, RN, AAAHC surveyor, offers insight on how ASCs can develop better quality improvement activities that not only help meet the AAAHC requirements but offer substantial benefits to ASCs.
Thanks to a very generous federal subsidy of COBRA insurance payments for the unemployed, which ended on May 31, COBRA enrollment of employees laid off by large companies more than doubled, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.
The following column first appeared in the AAPC News.Medicare Part B physician payments for transforaminal epidural injection services increased from $57 million in 2003 to $141 million in 2007, according to a recent review conducted by the Office of Inspector General (OIG).…
Odette Campbell, MD, who practiced internal medicine and radiation oncology in Denton and Corinth, Texas, has been charged with healthcare fraud, according to a news release by the Department of Justice.
Illinois authorities said 370 applications were submitted for the state's Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan in just the first few hours of submissions, according to a report by the Chicago Sun-Times.
The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice have released revised horizontal merger guidelines — the first time the guidelines have been revised in 18 years, according to a report by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.