The Medical Board of California has revoked the medical license of Lawrence Saks, MD, of Torrance, Calif., who has been indicted insurance fraud and is being investigated for other crimes, according to the Daily Breeze.
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Here are some statistics on the financial health of hospitals and health systems in the United States, according to the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Healthcare Financial Pulse: The Financial Health of U.S. Hospitals and Healthcare Systems, which surveyed 309 hospital…
Scott Becker, JD, CPA: Traditionally, well-managed and reasonable volume single-specialty centers have had better average profits as a percentage of collections than similarly situated multi-specialty centers.
Here are some interesting statistics on hospital finances in the economic downturn, according to the March survey report titled Healthcare Financial Pulse: How Hospitals are Combating the Financial Downturn by the Healthcare Financial Management Association, which was based on responses…
Norman Ornstein, who will deliver a keynote address at the 16th Annual Improving Profits and Business and Legal Issues for ASCs conference to held in Chicago from Oct. 8-10, is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public…
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Bill Lane, who will deliver a keynote address at the 16th Annual Improving Profits and Business and Legal Issues for ASCs conference to held in Chicago from Oct. 8-10, is the author of Jacked Up and served as a speechwriter,…
Bill Lane and Norman Ornstein will deliver keynote addresses at the 16th Annual Improving Profits and Business and Legal Issues for ASCs conference to be held in Chicago from Oct. 8-10.
The 2009 Survey of Health Care Consumers, conducted by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, found that 94 percent of Americans surveyed believed that healthcare costs were a threat to their personal financial security, according to a summary from Deloitte.
A study conducted by the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement has found that 60 percent of the nearly 1,000 participating ambulatory healthcare facilities indicated a decreased demand for services in the past 12 months, with 11 percent of facilities reporting…
CMS has begun to enforce stricter requirements for physician reporting after successful enrollment or re-enrollment, according to a report by American Medical News.