A licensed practical nurse working for a Miami-based home health agency has pleaded guilty to falsifying patient files to make it appear that they qualified for home health care and therapy services, when in fact they did not quality or…
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An employee of a Miami-based rehabilitation clinic has pleaded guilty to falsifying information in patient files in a scheme to defraud Medicare, according to a news release by the Department of Justice.
Ken Pettine, MD, a spine surgeon who co-owns the Loveland (Colo.) Surgery Center, a three-OR ASC specializing in orthopedic and spine surgery, offers four predictions on how healthcare reform will affect ASCs.
The U.S. Senate approved $16.1 billion to help the states pay Medicaid bills next year and sent the measure to the House, which is expected to come back from summer recess and vote on it next Tuesday, according to Politico.
During his decade with outpatient surgical facility operator Symbion in Nashville, Tenn., Michael Weaver has learned how to develop successful long-term partnerships and joint-venture collaborations with physicians. In a 2009 interview with Becker's ASC Review, he said hospitals, doctors and…
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The former executive director of a New York-based disabled center is being charged with embezzlement and defrauding $300,000 from Medicaid, according to a Times Union report.
The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of Louisiana returned over $44 million during the 2009-2010 fiscal year to the state and Medicaid program, according to a news report by WGNO ABC26 News.
A Georgia internist has been sued in a federal complaint for submitting over $2.2 million in false claims to Medicare, according to a news release by U.S. Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates.
As CEO of Executive Solutions for Healthcare in Chandler, Ariz., Linda Peterson is an expert in promoting cost efficiencies for ASCs. At the 2010 ASC Annual Conference in Anaheim, Calif., she spoke on "Doing More With Less," a pertinent topic…
The U.S. Senate cleared a decisive hurdle toward passage of $16 billion in federal assistance for state Medicaid programs in a 61-38 cloture vote defeating a Republican-led filibuster, according to Kaiser Health News.