An ongoing investigation into out-of-network billing practices by the New York state comptroller has resulted in allegations against a surgery center on Long Island that it inflated bills which cost the state $1 million, according to an audit report from…
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If one of your methods for keeping employees connected to the workplace includes handing out BlackBerrys, Treos or other personal digital assistant devices, you may be treading on thin legal ice, according to a story that will run in the…
A new study claims that an increasing number of privately insured patients are being referred for imaging scans by physicians who are referring them to their own facilities or machines, according to HealthDay News.
The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) is offering a live Ambulatory Surgery Administrator Certificate Program in San Antonio, Tex., on May 18-19, following the 2008 ASC Association meeting.
Nashville's HealthMark Partners (HMP) has announced that it and Atlanta-based Alliance Surgery (ASI) have combined their companies through a stock-for-stock exchange.
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The May/June edition of the Becker's ASC Review, featuring in-depth coverage of anesthesia, spine and orthopedics business and clinical issues for ASCS, is now online.
The Senate conferees' offer to the House conferees to remove the language on physician-owned hospitals from the farm bill (H.R. 2419) was accepted, and the bill no longer includes a provision banning self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals.
With the recovery audit contractor (RAC) demonstration program ending this past March, CMS expects to name the new, permanent RACs by May, announced Kimberly L. Brandt, CMS program integrity director, at the Health Care Compliance Association’s Compliance Institute held in…
Medtronic will purchase Restore Medical under an agreement in which Medtronic will pay $1.60 per share in cash for each share of Restore Medical stock. Restore Medical makes the Pillar Palatal Implant System, an innovative, minimally invasive, implantable device used…
The Orlando Sentinel reports on a study that indicates the ratio of general surgeons to patients has declined nearly 26 percent since 1981 as the number of general surgeons older than 50, and closer to retirement, has risen.