Category: ASC Coding, Billing and Collections

California health system, providers to pay $68M to resolve False Claims allegations

A California health system and three healthcare providers have agreed to pay $68 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act and the California False Claims Act by submitting or causing the submission of false claims to Medi-…

78 charged in $2.5B healthcare fraud scheme

Seventy-eight people have been charged with the alleged participation in a healthcare fraud and opioid abuse scheme worth more than $2.5 billion.

ASC operating costs: 5 key stats

Here are five key stats about ASC operating expenses from VMG Health’s 2022 “Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study:”

5 reasons ASC ownership stake is important amid increasing consolidation

Mark Spina, director of operations at the Hamden-based Endoscopy Center of Connecticut, joined Becker’s to discuss the importance of ASC ownership as the healthcare industry becomes increasingly consolidated.

Physician pay is increasing in these specialties 

Twenty-one physician specialties saw pay increases in 2023, according to Medscape’s “Physician Compensation Report 2023.”

3 big noncompete ban wins for physicians

In January, the Federal Trade Commission proposed a rule that would ban noncompete contracts nationwide. Eighty-seven percent of physicians support the rule, according to a report from Doximity.

New York 1 step closer to banning noncompetes

On June 20, the New York State Legislature passed a bill aiming to stop employers from entering into noncompete agreements with their employees, according to a June 26 post from JD Supra.

Physician-owned hospitals offer lower commercial, cash prices: 5 things to know 

Physician-owned hospitals offer commercial and cash prices that are about one-third lower than non-physician-owned hospitals, according to a study published June 23 in JAMA Network Open.

Stark laws: 7 things physicians should know

Here are seven things physicians should know about the physician self-referral laws, or Stark laws, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

The Anti-Kickback Statute: 7 things physicians should know

Here are seven things physicians should know about the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists: