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Here are the 50 top grossing short-term acute-care hospitals in the United States listed by gross revenue, according to CMS cost report data analyzed by American Hospital Directory. Note: The hospital total patient revenues and bed counts reported here are…

Here is a list of 10 hospitals and health systems that recently cut jobs as a result of varying financial difficulties, ordered by number of positions cut.

Here are the 10 most-read stories on www.BeckersASC.com in October.

Marietta (Ohio) Surgery Center recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary, and used the opportunity to help a local 9-year-old girl with an inoperable medical condition.

Two Los Angeles physicians — Rodney Barron, MD, and Eleanor Arthur, MD — were arrested on charges the pair had led a $5 million Medicare scam that included paying homeless patients to undergo unnecessary treatments that were later billed to…

A surgeon from Newton, Iowa, has been sentenced to six months and ordered to pay restitution after being convicted on 31 counts of healthcare fraud, according to a Chicago Tribune news report.

Manuel J. Fernandez, MD, an internist from Miami, has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay more than $656,000 in restitution for committing Medicaid fraud, according to a Crestview News Bulletin report.

Ken Beverly, former president and CEO of Archbold Medical Center in Thomasville, Ga., has been accused of falsifying documents to the Georgia Department of Community Health in order to pocket $9 million in Medicaid funds that were not rightfully due,…

Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital has begun construction on a new freestanding ASC on its campus.

Accountable Care Organizations – 9 Observations; Increased Integration Efforts; Increased Mergers and Acquisition Efforts; Call for Speakers: 9th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management Driven ASC Conference & 2nd Annual Hospital Conference — Improving Profits, ACOs, Physician Hospital Integration and…