Surgery Center at St. Andrews in Venice, Fla., is featured in a report by ABC 7 for its use of new technology to treat cataract surgery.
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As president of the California Ambulatory Surgery Association and manager of the Davis (Calif.) Surgery Center, Shannon Blakeley is a vehement advocate of surgery centers. In a June interview with the Sacramento Business Journal, he argued that by paying surgery…
Now that Don Berwick, MD, is starting his new job as CMS administrator, his old job as CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement has been given to his former COO, according to a release from IHI.
The OIG has announced it has entered into a $7.3 million civil settlement agreement with Chicago-based, physician-owned United Shockwave Services, United Prostate Centers and United Urology Centers (United) over charges that United violated federal anti-kickback laws.
Santa Ana, Calif.-based National Cardio Labs has agreed to pay $3.6 million to resolve allegations that the heart monitoring company defrauded Medicare, TRICARE and commercial insurers contracted through the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, according to a report by the…
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Micheline Lamarre, a physical therapist at Premium Care Physical Therapy in Brockton, Mass., and the practice's owner, Patrick J. Gelin, have been convicted of participating in a healthcare fraud scheme and conspiring to commit healthcare fraud, according to a report…
The Spencer (Iowa) Surgery and Laser Center has opened, giving Iowa its 32nd ASC, according to The Daily Reporter.
A board-certified otolaryngologist since 1993, Jeffrey Leider, MD, is particularly drawn to pediatric care — as well as the "young at heart" adult patients who visit his practice. More than anything, he wants patients to remember him as the kind…
Appointing Don Berwick, MD, as CMS administrator without Senate confirmation helped the Obama administration avoid debate on the restrictive nature of the healthcare reform law, as personified by Dr. Berwick and his many controversial pronouncements, according to an opinion piece…
Kent Sasse, MD, founder of the International Metabolic Institute, is pushing for change. In his blog, The Sasse Guide, he says Americans are caught in a culture of laziness, overeating, and inactivity — and, through their children, creating a generation…