The board of MediSys Health Network, parent company to four New York hospitals, has fired CEO David Rosen as he faces bribery charges in a federal corruption case, according to a New York Times report. Mr. Rosen has been replaced…
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Baltimore ophthalmologist Arthur Kiely, MD, has been charged with fraudulently billing Medicare and Medicaid for hundreds of medically unnecessary eye procedures, according to a Baltimore Sun report. The 33-page civil lawsuit, filed by the U.S. government, claims that Dr. Kiely…
The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission, which was established in 2009 but became operational in 2010 following the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, has released its first report.
Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, Calif., has begun construction on a new, $103 million replacement facility, expected to open in Oct. 2013, according to a news release by HBE Corp., the firm responsible for the hospital's construction.
A recent report by Moody's Investors Service has found that in the last five years, the number of hospital credit downgrades has outpaced the number of hospital credit upgrades, according to a report by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
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Ohio Governor John Kasich's proposed budget includes a temporary extension of the state's hospital franchise fee, which will be used to generate additional federal funding for the state's Medicaid program — a move that was proposed the Ohio Hospital Association,…
Fifty-five percent of physicians whose privileges were revoked or restricted by their hospitals were not disciplined by their states’ medical boards, according to Public Citizen. Based on information from the National Practitioner Data Bank, 5,887 doctors who had clinical privileges…
Some states seeking to balance their budgets by slowing Medicaid recipients' use of emergency departments are misinformed about the role of EDs in healthcare, according to a release by the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Melodie Garrobo, CASC, administrator of Golden Ridge Surgery Center in Golden, Colo., discusses six ways surgery center administrators can lead their physicians, staff members and anesthesia providers in decreasing turnover times.
Lee Chester, a healthcare architect and vice president of L3 Healthcare Design in Altamonte Springs, Fla., lists 10 cardinal sins in ambulatory surgery center design.