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As ASC and community hospital financial consultants, a recurring theme we encounter is what approach should small- to mid-sized facilities take in regards to their material management functions? There are typically three scenarios: material management as an administrative function, a…

A whole bevy of consumer-friendly provisions in the healthcare reform law kick in on Sept. 23, six months after the legislation was signed, according to a report by Kaiser Health News. Here are a six key points about the new…

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has filed a motion to intervene in a whistleblower suit against pharmaceutical company Pfizer's Wyeth unit for paying illegal kickbacks to physicians and promoting non-FDA approved uses of the organ…

Molly Sandvig, executive director of Physician Hospitals of America, says she will leave her position to become COO of Joint Replacement Hospitals of America, a new for-profit company developing knee- and hip-replacement hospitals to be run by physicians.

Allergan, a pharmaceutical company based in Irvine, Calif., has agreed to pay $600 million for promoting its pharmaceutical drug Botox — commonly used for cosmetic treatment — for uses not approved by the FDA, paying kickbacks to physicians and other…

During a state survey of Cleburne (Texas) Surgical Center this past spring, Suzette Rieger, RN, clinical coordinator of the ASC, says she and the surveyor reviewed the ASC's infection control checklist.

Before he joined the Medical Consulting Group team in 2002, Rob McCarville was responsible for overseeing 16 separate physician practices. In that role, he built a reputation as a leader who could develop innovative strategies to increase profitability in physician…

U.S. representatives Wally Herger (R-Calif.) and Pete Stark (D-Calif.) have introduced a bill, which would expand the authority of the HHS OIG to allow it to ban corporate executives from doing business with Medicare if their companies were convicted of…

El Centro Regional Medical Center, located in Imperial County, Calif., has agreed to pay $2.2 million to the government to settle Medicare fraud allegations, according to a DOJ news release.

Several states, including Washington, Wisconsin and Ohio, are set to receive a portion of a settlement totaling more than $81 million paid by two pharmaceutical subsidiaries of Johnson & Johnson to resolve allegations surrounding its illegal promotion of its epilepsy…