New requirements of initial self-disclosure of Medicare or Medicaid fraud have been issued by the Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General Daniel Levinson in an open letter. The fuller disclosure to the Office of Inspector General will be…
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Claiming it has lost tens of millions of dollars due to Alcon's alleged unfair practices, Synergetics USA, a leading microsurgical device company, has filed a civil, antitrust lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New…
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) take steps to establish greater consistency and compatibility of the data gathered on healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
Several lawmakers in Nevada plan to introduce legislation which would require ASCs to be accredited or inspected by an organization other than the state’s Bureau of Licensure and Certification, according to published reports.
Scott Becker recently spoke about new business challenges facing surgery centers with the Chicago Tribune’s Bruce Japsen on XM Radio’s ReachMD station. Scott was a featured participant in the station’s ongoing “Clinician’s Roundtable” series.
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CMS has issued a proposed rule to update the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS). Under this proposal, payment to hospitals is expected to increase by 3.3 percent on average.
The Associated Press (AP) reported that a federal judge has delayed a CMS pilot program intended to reduce the costs of Medicare lab tests after the judge determined that the program could threaten the quality of patient care. The program…
The first two weeks of April were busy with regard to Capitol Hill activity for physician-owned hospitals. While the American Hospital Association fly-in meeting was marking the destruction of the physician-hospital industry as one of its top priorities, four documents…
The Association for periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) will tackle the development of a standardized perioperative electronic healthcare record, the organization announced at its recent annual meeting. The electronic standardized perioperative record (SPR) will integrate AORN's standardized nursing vocabulary and the…
Citing mounting financial losses and having exhausted all other options -- including giving the hospital away for free -- SSM Health Care recently announced that it will close St. Francis Hospital and Health Center, located in the Chicago suburb of…