Jeff Leland, managing director of Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners, explains six things to know about how spine surgeons might fit into accountable care organizations.
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ASCs are experiencing increased pressure to demonstrate low incidence of infection and compliance to infection prevention rules and regulations. Louise Dechesser, a surveyor for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, says infection control is a challenge ASCs across the…
CMS is hosting an open forum teleconference on and seeking comments about a future ASC value-based purchasing program.
Prosecutors are asking a federal judge to sentence a Haysville, Kan., physician and his wife to life in prison for allegations including healthcare fraud and false prescriptions, according to a Kansas City Star news report.
A new online resource from the American College of Surgeons provides a state and county breakdown of the number of surgeons in each area.
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The American Society of Plastic Surgeons has announced the naming of Phillip Haeck, MD, a partner at Plastic Surgery Associates of Seattle, as the association's new president.
Pennsylvania added 19 ASCs and one closed in fiscal year 2009, but profits leveled off, according to a release by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding at the hospital's ASC.
The operator of an orthopedic supply company in Brunswick, Ga., has been charged and arrested for allegedly submitted false claims for orthopedic devices that were never provided to patients, according to a First Coast News report.
A former physician from Tigard, Ore., was arrested at Dulles International Airport after flying in from the United Arab Emirates and evading justice for improper medical practice and other charges for more than six years, according to an Oregonian news…