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Tampa, Fla.-based health insurer WellCare announced it will pay $137.5 million to the federal government to settle ongoing investigations and $200 million to settle a class action suit related to alleged Florida Medicaid fraud, according to a Wall Street Journal…

Center for Diagnostic Imaging, a St. Cloud, Minn.-based diagnostic imaging company with locations throughout the country, agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle allegations of Medicaid billing fraud, according to a Seattle Times report.

As president and CEO of ASC development and management company Physicians Endoscopy, Barry Tanner is keenly aware of the challenges facing GI-driven ASCs. In a 2008 interview with Becker's ASC Review, he said that, like other surgery centers, GI facilities…

Here are the average hourly wages for staff members and the average salary for administrators in ASCs with greater than 50 percent of their case volume in orthopedics, according to VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.

With House approval secured, a $16 billion package of enhanced federal Medicaid payments to states is being sent to President Obama for his signature, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.

LaClaro, an ASC technology company, has announced the launch of Lighthouse, a web-based workflow management, oversight reporting tool and analytic suite for ASC managers.

Congress is on its way to granting President Obama's request for a record $1.7 billion to stamp out healthcare fraud, with $116 million of that to go toward expanding Medicare strike forces, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.

Congressional investigators report it takes approximately six months for fraud busters hired by Medicare to report cases to law enforcement, according to a USA Today report.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its annual regulatory update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (the proposed 2011 update), including rules implementing key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended…

Mercy Health System, based in Conshohocken, Pa., has agreed to pay Medicare $7.9 million for overbilling the healthcare program, according to a report by The Times Herald.