Five pharmaceutical companies have paid more than $25 million to North Carolina to settle fraud allegations, thanks to investigations by the state’s Medicaid Investigations Unit, according to a news release from the North Carolina Department of Justice. The following cases…
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Innovative Resources Group, doing business as APS Healthcare Midwest of White Plains, N.Y., will pay $13 million to the federal government and the state of Georgia to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to Medicaid for specialty services not…
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Chicago — Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, the national association for surgery centers, and ASC Communications, publisher of Becker's ASC Review and Becker's Orthopedic & Spine Review, announce Mike Ditka, legendary NFL player and coach, as a keynote speaker at the…
in2itive Business Solutions, a healthcare revenue management and consulting firm, has announced it has seen its client base grow 500 percent while increasing its workforce tenfold.
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Ocular Systems has received FDA clearance to market its product EndoSerter, a device for inserting replacement cells into the eye during a type of corneal transplant, according to a company release.
SourceMedical, a premier provider of clinical and management ambulatory surgery center software solutions, has announced that The Reading Hospital SurgiCenter at Spring Ridge in Wyomissing, Pa., has selected its Vision and Vision Electronic Health Record.
Some healthcare facilities are relying on older medicines to deal with a shortage of 150 drugs, 60 of which federal health officials consider "medically necessary," according to a Los Angeles Times report.
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association has endorsed the Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-Cost, Timely Healthcare Act of 2011, legislation that would cap the amount for non-economic damages at $250,000, according to a letter sent by ASC Association Executive Director William Prentice…
As hospital employment becomes increasingly common, rotating medical students and residents through a practice may help attract physicians to smaller practices, according to an American Medical News report.