Category: ASC News

From false Medicare claims to improper and reckless medical billing, here are 14 major False Claims Act settlements in 2022 and the first week of 2023.  

Two organizations behind an $8.3 million healthcare facility in Jacksonville, Fla., have requested a $500,000 grant from the city, according to a Jan. 9 report from the Jacksonville Daily Record.

The annual number of ransomware attacks on healthcare delivery organizations has more than doubled since 2016, according to a Dec. 29 report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. 

Below are seven hospitals ending services that Becker’s has reported on: 

About 25 percent of patients routinely used telehealth in 2022, according to a Jan. 9 report from the American Medical Association. 

AMN Healthcare in partnership with Merritt Hawkins released its 2022 “Survey of Physician Appointment Wait Times and Medicare and Medicaid Acceptance Rates,” which found that wait times for physician appointments have increased by 8 percent since 2017….

The Memorial Hermann Medical Plaza in Houston, Texas, has been awarded an Energy Star certification by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to a Jan. 6 report from Rejournals.

Numerous Vermont physicians and physician organizations are asking state legislators to keep the current cap on THC potency in cannabis products, Vermont Business Magazine reported Jan. 5. 

In 2022, 4 in 10 physicians reported having a side job that earned them $25,300 on average, according to a Jan. 6 report from Medscape. 

Medscape laid out physicians’ side gigs in its 2022 “Physician Side Gigs” report.