On Aug. 31, the HHS Office of Inspector General released an Advisory Opinion regarding the provision of free pre-authorization services by a hospital for diagnostic imaging services provided by the hospital.
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MedAssets has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Broadlane Group for $850 million, creating an entity that would serve as many as 4,400 hospitals through various services, including group purchasing, according to a release by MedAssets.
Pain specialist Mark T. Malone, MD, has opened a new ASC in Round Rock, Texas, and completed renovations on a clinic, according to a report in the Austin Business Journal.
Construction for a new ASC for Central Florida Health Alliance is expected to begin in the fall, according to a report in the Florida Real Estate Journal.
CMS requires physicians to be included in infection control education, which is why Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center in Baxter, Minn., puts its physicians through infection control orientation.
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North American Surgery, a firm that arranges surgeries for self-paying patients, gets countless inquiries from surgical hospitals and ASCs in the United States about its rates. When facilities learn they'll need to provide steep discounts, four out of five never…
Dallas-based transaction and valuation advisory firm VMG Health has released its ASC financial and operational benchmarking study, Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010, according to a VMG news release.
Tom Yerden, CEO of TRY Health Care Solutions in Salmon, Idaho, has more than 28 years of experience in the ASC industry, spanning the development of 70 surgery centers and the founding of Aspen Healthcare — later sold to a…
Kathie Stewart, administrator at Cascade Spine Center in Tualatin, Ore., discusses four ways the spine center is working to maintain profitability despite declining reimbursements.
The California Medical Association has filed a class action suit against Blue Shield of California alleging the insurers' physician rating program potentially harms physicians and patients by spreading misinformation, according to a Sacramento Business Journal report.