This management group operates ASCs and surgical hospitals nationwide with more than 2,000 physician partners. This management group has been recognized by Becker's ASC Review and Becker's Hospital Review as one of 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare and…
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Advanced Surgical Concepts – Pain ASC (Baton Rouge, La.). Advanced Surgical Concepts is an outpatient surgery center located in the same facility as Comprehensive Pain Management, the practice of Sandra R. Weitz, MD, Elizabeth Russo-Stringer, MD, and Alpesh D. Patel,…
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius approved a waiver that allows extra funding to help Florida's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit to better screen or "mine" for potential healthcare fraud in the Medicaid Management Information System, according to a…
Here are 10 recent fraud and abuse cases involving physicians. Click the links to learn more about each case.
Florin Catinas, DC, an Anaheim, Calif.-based chiropractor who pleaded guilty to charges of healthcare fraud in January, was sentenced to 60 days in jail, according to a report by the Orange County Register.
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Allstate Insurance Co. is suing more than a dozen California physicians and chiropractors for filing claims while posing as medical groups, according to a report by KMJNOW.
New Jersey physician Magdy Elamir, MD, was indicted for healthcare fraud and writing unnecessary prescriptions, according to a report by NorthJersey.com, the online edition of The Record.
A federal judge has signed an order stating Tuomey Hospital in Sumter, S.C., must pay the U.S. government more than $49.4 million for violating the Stark Act, according to a report by the Sumter Item.
Here are seven statistics on oral and maxillofacial surgeon compensation from May 2009 figures, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook: 2010-2011 Edition.
Jorge J. Dieppa, MD, a general practitioner, along with about 24 other suspects in Florida, was charged with healthcare fraud as a part of a federal crackdown that charged 94 people in five cities with plotting to defraud Medicare of…