1. The economy One of the biggest business issues facing ASCs today is something they have little control over — the economy. The bad economy and the resulting high unemployment rates have created multiple challenges for ASCs in recent years.…
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HHS has waived a regulation that would require physicians to bill Medicare patients for additional coinsurance for June claims, in connection with to the 2.2 percent physician payment increase recently passed by Congress.
Former Beverly Hospital associate vice president Paul Galzerano has been indicted in a bribery and kickback scheme that brought him nearly $500,000 in profits, according to a report by The Salem News.
Augusta (Ga.) Medical Systems and its former owner, Julian Osbon, have been charged by federal prosecutors for submitting false and fraudulent claims to Medicare for more than $690,000, according to a news release by U.S. States Attorney Edward J. Tarver. …
If you are like most people in the healthcare industry, you get dozens — perhaps hundreds — of e-mails on a daily basis. E-mails from fellow employees or those within our close circle of business contacts generally fall into two…
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As director of quality and safety for Amerinet, Holly Hampe, RN, is invested in meeting requirements for infection control. In April, she shared her thoughts on controlling infection in ASCs with Becker's ASC Review, saying that because "surgical site infections…
Centra Ambulatory Surgery continues to see challenges to its efforts to build an ASC in Danville, Vir., with the latest coming in the form of an economic impact study report from a firm hired by a local hospital, according to…
The Center for Sight ASC in Sarasota, Fla., has announced it is participating in Mission Cataract USA and will provide free cataract surgery to 29 patients on June 30.
A new study finds that 91 percent of physicians believe their colleagues perform defensive medicine, ordering extra tests and procedures to protect themselves against lawsuits, according to a release by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.