Herb Schultz has been named director for HHS Region IX, which oversees California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam and other U.S. possessions in the Pacific, according to a report by the San Francisco Business Times.
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A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the rate and costs of spinal surgery in Medicare patients has found the number of Medicare enrollees receiving complex spinal fusion increased 15-fold, from less than 1 percent…
ASCs continuously search for new service lines to generate additional revenue for their centers. Orthopedic and pain management ASCs often look to spine surgery to provide that new revenue, but they often overlook a procedure they can add with no…
UnitedHealth Group, Healthspring, Coventry Health Care and Humana are among the insurers that will receive the same payment rates for 2011 as they did this year for administering Medicare Advantage plans, according to a report in Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
Jatin Patel, owner of Rx Shop, Rajnish Mehta, Satender Singh, Naresh Jain and Sachin Amin have been arrested and charged with fabricating prescriptions and submitting the claims to Medicaid, Medicare and Tricare, according to a report in The Tampa Tribune.
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Christian G. Zimmerman, MD, FACS, MBA, is chairman, medical director of Idaho Neurological Institute, and co-chairman, Spinal Medicine Institute, at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, ID.
CMS should improve payment processes that allowed $231 million in overpayments identified by Recovery Audit Contractors in the three-year demonstration phase of the RAC program, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
Several groups of physicians in North Carolina's Triad area have submitted three proposals for new outpatient surgery centers, which will compete for approval by the state, according to a report in The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area.