Cedar Park, Texas, has changed its zoning to allow for the building of a new ASC, according to a Community Impact report.
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The Department of Health & Human Services has moved the implementation date of ICD-10-CM back two years, from Oct. 1, 2011, to Oct. 1, 2013, according to an AAPC report.
Kevin Dowdy is director of managed care for Meridian Surgical Partners.Q: When is the right time for our ASC to drop a payor and what should we do for our patients and physicians before ending the relationship?
Houston-area residents Kate Ose Olear and John Edward Perry III, MD, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, according to a report by the Courier.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has published an update on the propofol shortage.
The Senate on Friday passed a six-month fee fix, retroactive to June 1, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) indicated the House would not pass the bill because it lacks enhanced funding for the unemployed, according to a report by…
Irving Pike, MD, FACG, is president of Gastroenterology Consultants in Virginia Beach, Va., and assistant professor of clinical internal medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. He has a strong background in general gastroenterology, with special interests in endoscopic…
Valley Surgery Center in Florence, Ala., has had its certificate of need application to expand the types of surgeries offered at the ASC denied by the state's Certificate of Need Review Board, according to a report in The Times Daily.
Dawn Q. McLane, RN, MSA, CASC, CNOR, is chief development officer of Nikitis Resource Group, an ASC development and management firm.Q: There seems to be a decline in the number new surgery centers. What are some of the factors contributing…
Cypress Surgery Center and Visalia Center for Ambulatory Medicine and Surgery, both in Visalia, Calif., will merge their ASCs in August, according to a Visalia Times-Delta report.