VMG Health's ValueDriver - ASC Risk Assessment Survey identifies the following four responses from survey respondents — ASC managers and operators representing over 1,000 ASCs — as the most common when discussing how the ASC acquisition market has evolved over…
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The American Academy of Professional Coders has published an article providing coding guidelines for abdominal wall reconstruction.
Great Lakes Surgical Center in Southfield, Mich., with about 25 owners, has been open for five years. With four ORs and a volume of 6,500 to 7,000 cases a year, it is solidly in the black. Keith Metz, MD, anesthesiologist…
This management group operates ASCs and surgical hospitals nationwide with more than 2,000 physician partners. This management group has been recognized by Becker's ASC Review and Becker's Hospital Review as one of 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare and…
Advanced Surgical Concepts – Pain ASC (Baton Rouge, La.). Advanced Surgical Concepts is an outpatient surgery center located in the same facility as Comprehensive Pain Management, the practice of Sandra R. Weitz, MD, Elizabeth Russo-Stringer, MD, and Alpesh D. Patel,…
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius approved a waiver that allows extra funding to help Florida's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit to better screen or "mine" for potential healthcare fraud in the Medicaid Management Information System, according to a…
Here are 10 recent fraud and abuse cases involving physicians. Click the links to learn more about each case.
Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newtonville, Mass., announced plans to open a new ASC, according to a report by The Wellesley Townsman.
Florin Catinas, DC, an Anaheim, Calif.-based chiropractor who pleaded guilty to charges of healthcare fraud in January, was sentenced to 60 days in jail, according to a report by the Orange County Register.
Allstate Insurance Co. is suing more than a dozen California physicians and chiropractors for filing claims while posing as medical groups, according to a report by KMJNOW.