Category: ASC News

Moberly, Mo.-based physician Justin Lamonda, MD, was sentenced to 22 months of prison and must pay $537,332 for falsely using his father’s name to bill Medicare and Medicaid for services. 

Three California nurse practitioners are suing the state for the right to identify using the term “doctor,” claiming they have earned the right after receiving their doctorates of nursing practice, according to a Sept. 15 report from the American Medic…

Here are five of Amazon’s most recent healthcare moves Becker’s has reported on since Aug. 4: 

Online networking service Doximity has named the top residency programs for research output in 2023, with Boston-based Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary taking the top slot. 

Forbes has identified its list of the top 25 places to retire in 2023 after screening more than 800 locales in the U.S. 

Twenty-three percent of residents expect to become a practice owner or partner, according to Medscape’s 2023 “Resident and Salary Debt Report.”

Resident salary has jumped 21.7 percent since 2015, according to Medscape’s 2023 “Resident and Salary Debt Report.”

On Sept. 8, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the Ways and Means Committee, and the Committee on Education and the Workforce introduced a healthcare package titled the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act, which requires ASCs to me…

Oliver Street Dermatology, a Texas management company that operates dermatology practices, ASCs and pathology laboratories, has agreed to pay $8.9 million to settle self-reported allegations that it violated Stark law. 

Even as the popularity of ASC procedures rise and the costs remain lower than hospital outpatient departments in most cases, hospital outpatient departments are still outpacing ASCs in the number of procedures performed, according to Blue Cross Blue Sh…