A new study claims to show that primary care physicians performing colonoscopies in licensed ASCs have comparable performance quality indicators and lesion detection rates to those for experienced gastroenterologists.
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Anesthesiologist Aisha Goheer, MD, has joined the medical staff of Somerset (Pa.) Hospital, according to a news release from the hospital.
Doug Yunker, MD, an anesthesiologist who is medical director of Upper Arlington Surgery Center in Columbus, Ohio, reviews some of the advantages and disadvantages of employing versus contracting anesthesiologists, both from the anesthesiologists' point of view and from the hospital…
Here are the average operating expenses by expense category per single case in ASCs with greater than 50 percent of their case volume in orthopedics, according to VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.
To nominate an ASC as a GI-driven ASC to know, e-mail rob@beckersasc.com. A list of 30 GI-Driven ASCs to Know will appear on www.BeckerASC.com and in an upcoming issue of Becker's ASC Review. New York GI Center is a single-speciatly…
The former CEO at Physicians Regional Medical Center in Naples, Fla., has filed a whistleblower suit against Health Management Associates alleging the hospital operator provided kickbacks to physicians in exchange for referrals, according to a Naples Daily News report.
United Surgical Partners International has announced its second quarter of 2010 financial results, highlighted by systemwide revenue growth of 7 percent and an increase in EBITDA less noncontrolling interests of $1.8 million over the prior year period.
U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock has ruled the U.S. Department of Justice can join a whistleblower suit against St. Jude Medical alleging the company providing kickbacks to physicians in return for their use of St. Jude's pacemakers and defibrillators, according…
Tampa, Fla.-based health insurer WellCare announced it will pay $137.5 million to the federal government to settle ongoing investigations and $200 million to settle a class action suit related to alleged Florida Medicaid fraud, according to a Wall Street Journal…