Northern Hospital of Surry County in Mount Airy, N.C., will soon open a five-suite surgical center, according to a report in the Mount Airy News.
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N.Y. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has reached an agreement with California-based insurer HealthNet over flawed out-of-network reimbursement processes, according to a news release from his office.
Company sought that could utilize a $20,000,000 net operating loss from a bankrupt healthcare service company to shelter income in another company. Like a tax-free property exchange, the acquiring company must be in a like business (healthcare service provider). Here…
CMS has issued a scam alert for a scheme where perpetrators are sending faxes to physician offices posing as the Medicare carrier or Medicare Administrative Contractor.
The Cardinal Health Foundation, based in Dublin, Ohio, announced it has awarded a total of $1 million in grant funding for new and innovative programs to improve patient safety at 35 hospitals, health systems and community health clinics across the…
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A sticking point in crafting major national health care reform legislation, according to media accounts, is whether or not Congress should create a new "public" plan as an alternative to private insurance plans. The role of a public plan has…
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Ophthalmology is a growing specialty in surgery centers and is currently represented in 38 percent of all surgery centers, up 27 percent since 2007, according to recent data from the SDI 2008 Outpatient Surgery Center Market Report.As more surgery centers…
The U.S. attorney in Philadelphia indicted four Synthes executives of the unauthorized promotion of a bone filler product, alleging that the executives encouraged its use in unauthorized trials, according to a report in the New York Times.
Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed Health & Hospitals filed two certificate of need applications with the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation for the construction of a freestanding ASC and a diagnostic center, according to a WakeMed news release.