Everyone who has an e-mail account has seen at least one version of the so-called "Nigerian Widow" scam, an unusually solicitous e-mail from a woman who claims her husband recently died and left a large sum of money in Nigeria…
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A U.S. District Court rejected a challenge brought by a group of cardiologists, surgeons and physician-owned entities, which claimed that a change in CMS's self-referral rules could hurt patient care, according to a report in American Medical News.
Eleven people, including the owner of a healthcare clinic in Bronx, N.Y., have been charged with enterprise corruption for their roles in a $1 million insurance fraud scheme, according to a report in the New York Daily News.
Physician Hospitals of America has released a statement saying that a deal made by the American Hospital Association, Federation of American Hospitals and Catholic Health Association with the White House and Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) to reduce Medicare…
Here are 10 of the most critical policies and procedures for reducing risk at an ASC according to Nancy Burden, MS, RN, CPAN, CPAP, director of BayCare Ambulatory Surgery in Largo, Fla., and Terri Brickey, RN, BSN, LHRM, CASC, administrator…
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Regulators from the California Department of Managed Health Care obtained an order from an administrative judge preventing Raymond and Jean Palombo of Riverside, Calif., from selling HMO and PPO insurance plans in California, according to a report in the Los…
A Rhode Island bill to cap the compensation of any hospital executive in the state at no more than 110 percent of the compensation received by counterparts in the region has died in the house, according to a report by…
ASCs around the country have begun to take steps to automate many of their manual processes, such as registration, perioperative services and payment posting, using the Internet and other technology. Although the practice is not yet widely used, experts predict…
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The American Hospital Association, the Federation of American Hospitals and the Catholic Health Association have agreed to contribute $155 billion over the course of 10 years to finance healthcare coverage for the nation's uninsured, according to a report in the…