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…
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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.
In the latest attack on physician-owned specialty hospitals, opponents of the surgical facilities have sneaked provisions into the farm bill after versions of the legislation had been approved by both the House and Senate.
In an op-ed in the Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, S.D.), R. Blake Curd, MD, a clinical assistant professor with the University of South Dakota School of Medicine and director of Physician Hospitals of America, hits out at a proposed joint-ventured…
CMS has issued updated payment rates for selected separately payable drugs and biologicals and provided rates and descriptors for newly created Level II HCPCS codes for drugs and biologicals in its first quarterly update to the ASC payment system.
The Colorado Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (CASCA) released the results of the nation's first Quality Research Initiative stat survey of ASC activities, including procedures performed, nurse to patient ratios, infection rates and patient satisfaction.