For ASCs, maximizing capacity doesn’t always mean adding operating rooms or expanding facilities. Sometimes, it means rethinking the processes that determine how existing space is used. At Sacramento, ...
New Brunswick, N.J.-based St. Peter’s Healthcare System’s Oct. 14 lawsuit against West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health and former board member Maureen Cernadas, MD, is about one OB-GYN group in ...
In some states, ASCs are ending contracts with physician anesthesia groups and hiring groups made up only of certified registered nurse anesthetists to balance costs. Some anesthesia leaders say ...
Ophthalmologist J. Hunter Aultman, MD, plans to open an eye practice in Vicksburg, Miss., before year-end, the Vicksburg Post reported. The practice will operate in a building now under renovation. Dr ...
CMS’ proposed 2027 outpatient and ambulatory surgery center payment rule drew 2,180 public comments, and 340B dominated them. About 1,000 submissions weighed in on a proposal to cut Medicare payment ...
Five physicians are among 15 defendants charged in a Los Angeles healthcare fraud takedown involving $2 billion in alleged fraudulent claims, according to an Oct. 22 news release from the U.S.
The California Association of Nurse Anesthesiology has sued the California Department of Public Health and the Office of Administrative Law. The suit alleges that state regulations improperly bar ...
Care New England Medical Group, part of Providence, R.I.-based Care New England, opened a 45,000-square-foot ambulatory care center in East Greenwich, R.I. It dedicated the center ...
A Johnson County, Kan., health software CEO has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for running a platform that generated false physician orders used to bill Medicare and other federal health ...
Patrick McEneaney, DPM, always planned to own a practice. He didn’t plan on doing it five years out of residency. Dr. McEneaney was working for a practice when its owner gave him a choice: buy it, or ...
Virginia Women’s Center performs about 1,900 surgical cases a year in hospital settings. Keith Berkle, MD, is an OB-GYN and President of Virginia Women’s Center. He estimates at least 1,500 of them ...
Healthcare providers and state lawmakers defended West Virginia’s certificate-of-need law Oct. 20 as Gov. Patrick Morrisey pushes for its repeal, WV News reported Oct. 21. The discussion took place in ...