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Federal and state regulators have increased scrutiny around false claims involving medically unnecessary services in recent years. Such claims are costly to Medicare, Medicaid and other payors, and providers are liable under the False Claims Act for these false billing…

A Florida physician has been sentenced to four years in prison for attempting to sell three suitcases full of oxycodone on the black market to pay off stock losses as a day-trader, according to a Tampa Tribune report.

The NYU Langone Medical Center in New York is using palm scans to confirm patients' identities and locate their medical records, according to a CBS New York report.

The National Institutes of Health has issued rules on payments to physicians and other researchers by drug and device companies as a way to reduce conflicts of interest, according to a Washington Post report.

A new study finds exfoliation syndrome, an eye condition that can lead to glaucoma, is influenced by geographic factors such as ambient temperature, elevation and sunlight exposure, according to a Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary news release.

New research helps explain why men and women experience pain differently and have different reactions to some pain medications, according to a State University of New York Downstate news release.

ePAY Healthcare, a provider of personalized self-service payment applications for hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers, has rolled its patient payment services to the Mirage Endoscopy Center, a Health Inventures-managed facility in Rancho Mirage, Calif.

A pediatrician from New York’s Orleans County was sentenced on federal charges to two years’ probation after he pleaded guilty to submitting false claims to a federal program, according to a Daily News report. Ghulam Mustafa, MD, admitted in U.S.…

HHS is reviewing a number of regulatory requirements that impact surgery centers, including a regulation that requires ASCs to provide certain notices to patients prior to the date of surgery, according to an ASCA release.

Congressman Dave Camp (R-MI), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, recently toured Great Lakes Bay Surgery & Endoscopy Center in Midland, Mich., according to a Booth Mid-Michigan report hosted on the Michigan Live website.