A recent security breach at a Derby, Conn., hospital highlights some risks that could easily plague an ASC, an imaging center, or any physician-owned medical facility.
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Miami-area fugitive Ernesto Angel Montaner, a massage clinic owner who was convicted of Medicare fraud, was apprehended in Costa Rica, according to a news release by the U.S. Department of State Diplomacy in Action.
Six more people involved in a ring that defrauded $4.6 million from Medi-Cal have been convicted, according to a news release published by The Orange County Register.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius appointed 28 individuals to a new committee that will review and update the criteria used to define medically underserved areas and health professional shortage areas, according to a Health…
Temple, Texas-based Scott & White Healthcare has implemented a "care transitions" initiative designed to keeping readmission rates low, according to a report by U.S. News and World Report.
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The Oral Surgery Center in Woodbury, Minn., has hired Christopher J. French, MD, according to a Woodbury Bulletin report.
Bill Heath, chief development officer of Practice Partners in Healthcare, discusses the current state of ASCs.
Bill Heath, chief development officer of Practice Partners in Healthcare, discusses four issues that arise when starting an ASC.
As executive director of the ASC Quality Collaboration, Donna Slosburg, RN, helps ASCs improve healthcare quality and safety by developing standardized quality measures, publically reporting quality data and assembling tools for infection prevention. The ASC QC recently introduced a campaign…
Amy Mowles, president and CEO of Mowles Medical Practice Management, who developed the majority of the ASCs featured in the recent column of 11 Pain Management-Driven ASCs to Know, describes five critical elements leading to the success of these ASCs.