Citing the state's "any-willing-provider" law, Georgia's Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine ruled that Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia must allow Northeast Georgia Cancer Care of Athens into its HMO plan, according to a report in American Medical News.
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Physicians at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., have found for the first time that, under certain circumstances, infants and children may be exposed to carbon monoxide during routine anesthesia resulting in a rise in the carbon monoxide levels…
Excessive administrative complexity related to billing costs physicians practices nearly 12 percent of their net patient revenue, according to a study in Health Affairs.
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil investigation into possible anticompetitive behaviors by Boston-based Partners HealthCare System and issued letters requesting information related to the system's contracting procedures with health insurers to Partners and Massachusetts' three largest insurance…
The following is a list of outstanding administrators at surgery centers across the country. To read an administrator's complete profile, please click on his or her name.
Here are the median amounts of cash, net accounts receivable and working capital for surgery centers and their relative percentages of total assets, based an ASC's annual case volume, according to VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.
Here are the 2010 CMS reimbursement rates for five GERD-related upper endoscopy procedures in the ASC setting.
A federal judge in a California district court has denied a motion to dismiss antitrust claims by a California physician group and two physicians against Children's Hospital Central California in Madera, Calif., and two other medical practices, according to court…
The ASC Association 2009 ASC Employee Salary & Benefits Survey recorded the median base salary for an ASC administrator at $92,957. VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker reports the median base salary at $101,348. Several factors can affect base salary and overall…
Wellcare Health Plans, a Tampa-Fla.-based company that manages Illinois' largest Medicaid HMO plan, revealed that it had overbilled the state by around $1 million from July 2006-June 2009, according to a report in The Chicago Tribune.