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An emergency physician from Arkansas pleaded not guilty to charges of using fraudulent prescriptions to buy hydrocodone, according to a KFSM report.

The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance recently approved measures that will allow insurers to assess a penalty of up to 30 percent of eligible charges for Personal Injury Protection plan patients that use out-of-network ASCs.

Q: How is healthcare reform likely to impact the pain management component of my ASC?

The new ban on physician-owned hospitals is not going to stop surgeon-owned facilities from providing overnight recovery for surgery patients, says Ken Pettine, MD, a spine surgeon who co-owns the Loveland (Colo.) Surgery Center.

Every year, the staff members at Center for Sight in Sarasota, Fla., become angels for local underprivileged children. By collecting toys and presents for children who might otherwise go without, the staff doesn't just give back to the community —…

Medi-Corp specializes in coding, billing and collecting for anesthesia, surgical center facilities, pain management and other modalities.

Provisions in the healthcare law to introduce efficiencies, combat fraud and reduce payments in the Medicare program are expected to save $7.8 billion through next year and $418 billion by 2019, according to a CMS report.

A former nurse at a Mississippi nursing home has been charged with fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs, according to a news release by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood.

A Miami infusion clinic owner and his brother pleaded guilty to their involvement in a Medicare fraud scheme, according to a news release by the Department of Justice.

Two pharmacists have been sentenced to probation for their involvement in defrauding Medicaid and Tricare, according to a report by the Tampa Tribune.