A bipartisan group of 21 senators, led by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mike Crapo (R-ID), have submitted a letter to CMS asking the agency to fix the ASC payment update.
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As CEO of Ambulatory Surgery Centers of America, Luke Lambert helps to lead his company in developing and managing surgery centers. It makes sense, then, that he has an acute sense of why some surgery centers underperform financially. In a…
Medicare trustees said Medicare's hospital insurance trust fund would last until 2029, 12 years longer than trustees projected last year, due to cost-saving measures in the healthcare reform law, according to a report by the New York Times.
Q: In your experience, what are some of the essential pieces of equipment and their average costs for starting a pain management service line in an ASC? Amy Mowles, President and CEO, Mowles Medical Practice Management: Here is what centers…
A cardiologist and five associates from an Ohio-based clinic have been charged with conspiring to unlawfully distribute prescription medications, according to a news release by the Department of Justice.
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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…
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…