The Kentucky House yesterday passed legislation that would make it easier to target and prosecute physicians who overprescribe painkillers, according to a Frankfort State Journal report.
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Research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found that more than 33 percent of cancer patients do not receive adequate pain treatment, according to Medical News Today. Among those patients, minorities are twice as likely to receive insufficient pain…
The American Academy of Family Physicians is calling on CMS to change a proposed rule on reporting and returning physician overpayments. The final rule should clearly distinguish the differences between occasional overpayments and actual fraudulent activities by Medicare providers and…
SurgLine International announced the company has successfully completed its first sports medicine case to a physician-owned surgery center in Indiana, according to an African Business Review report.
Minnesota Eye Consultants, which currently operates three ambulatory surgery centers, five laser and refractive surgery centers and 10 clinic locations in Minnesota, recently chose NextGen Healthcare Information Systems to provide IT and connectivity solutions.
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Blayne Rush, MHP, MBA, is the president of Ambulatory Alliances, a management firm based in Richmond, Va., that focuses on surgery center brokerage and physician recruitment.
Hospitals identified as 100 Top Hospital award winners by Thomson Reuters used more advanced levels of information technology-enabled processes when compared to the overall U.S. hospital industry, according to an analysis by HIMSS Analytics and Thomson Reuters. Read the full…
Researchers from the Stanford University Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research have published a report designed to help healthcare providers understand opportunities for care coordination using data from electronic data sources. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review…
Tom Bombardier, MD, is a board-certified ophthalmologist who is also the chief operating officer and one of three founding principals at Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America. ASCOA is a physician-owned ASC development and management company that has successfully helped physicians…
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