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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.

A New Jersey pharmacy has been ordered to serve one year of probation and pay $730,000 in restitution for overbilling health insurers for brand-name drugs when it actually sold generic brands, according to a report by Asbury Park Press.

The U.S. Attorney's Office has until Sept. 30 to decide if it will intervene in a False Claims lawsuit alleging fraudulent billing practices by an Indiana ASC, hospital and local physicians, according to an Evansville Courier & Press report.

Proponents for North Carolina-based Community Care say the care management model could improve Medicaid care, according to an article by American Medical News.

Steven Geringer has served as chairman of the board of AmSurg in Nashville, Tenn., since June 2009, when he succeeded Tom Cigarran, who had served as chairman for 17 years before becoming an AmSurg director.

An article in the Wall Street Journal discusses the decline of patient visits to physicians' offices and overall use of medical services.