A former New Hampshire psychiatrist has been sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison for signing hundreds of medically unnecessary orders for braces without ever examining patients, ...

In an Oct. 14 white paper Surgical Directions and Ventra Health argue that hospitals should manage anesthesiology operations and revenue cycle management as one financial system to ease subsidy ...

When its anesthesiology group pulled out roughly two years ago, a Buffalo, N.Y.-based ASC had to rethink how it delivers anesthesia. That meant new supervision policies, retraining for its clinical ...

A Falmouth, Mass., man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder proceeds of a more than $6 million Medicare fraud scheme run through a New Hampshire medical supply company, according to an Oct. 13 ...

CMS’ 2.5% efficiency adjustment cut work relative value units on about 7,700 non-time-based codes starting Jan. 1. It was a percentage cut that came with a conversion factor increase, so the dollar ...

By [Byline] For the better part of two decades, cardiology has moved steadily inside hospital walls. Hospital employment of cardiologists climbed from roughly 26% in 2008 to 63% in 2019, and by 2022 ...

CMS’ updated coverage policy for transcatheter aortic valve replacement gives hospitals more operational flexibility, but some cardiovascular leaders warn the financial incentives built into the ...

A Buffalo, N.Y.-based ASC stopped performing pediatric surgery after its anesthesiology group left and the center moved to a CRNA-only model. Before that, it had been one of only two local sites ...

Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and Miami-based Baptist Health South Florida are launching a four-year anesthesiology residency program, with the first class ...

San Diego-based Euclid Endoscopy Center has been acquired by Nashville, Tenn.-based Amsurg, according to an Oct. 13 news release shared with Becker’s. The gastroenterology-focused ASC operates ...

Nashville, Tenn.-based Radiology Partners has secured approval from its bondholders to change the terms of some of its debt, clearing the way for its planned acquisition of Everlight Radiology, ...

New York State Sen. Jim Tedisco has asked Gov. Kathy Hochul to issue an executive order, call the Legislature back for an emergency session, or both, to protect cardiology patients at Schenectady, N.Y ...