The Florida Medical Association voted over the weekend to send a letter to the American Medical Association expressing its concern over the organization's stance on healthcare reform.
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A new study published in the Archives of Surgery attempts to show physicians with ownership in ASCs or specialty hospitals were more likely to provide arthroscopic knee surgery or carpal tunnel and rotator cuff surgical repair to patients than physicians…
New York was the first state to impose a certificate of need requirement in 1964, and most other states then followed suit. While many sates have softened or removed their CON requirements since then, New York has dug in.
A new 60,174-square-foot spine surgery and treatment center that includes an ASC will open next year in Carmel, Ind., according to a report by The Indianapolis Star.
Bellin Health Orthopedic Surgery Center and Orthopedic Sports Medicine Specialists announced the grand opening of a$11.9 million surgery center and clinic in Bellevue, Wis., according to a Bellin Health news release.
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A Manhattan, N.Y.-based physician and eight others have been charged for allegedly distributing oxycodone pills through a Manhattan-based drug ring, according to a news release by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
An emergency room physician at Ogdensburg, N.Y.-based Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center has had his medical license revoked after being charged with fraudulently obtaining a medical license, gross negligence and incompetence, according to a Watertown Daily Times news report.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced grant awards of $46 million, made available through the Affordable Care Act, to 45 states and the District of Columbia to help improve oversight of insurance rate hikes, according to an HHS news release.
Allegations of fraud by Solantic, a chain of Florida urgent care clinics owned in part by Florida Republican Gubernatorial Candidate and former HCA CEO Rick Scott, have been forwarded to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for possible…