Category: ASC News

A circuit court affirmed a $15 million conviction for a physician, who was the former medical director of several hospice care providers, for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, Vital Law reported Aug. 15. 

A physician in Middletown, N.J., has agreed to pay $300,000 to resolve allegations he did not maintain adequate drug registrations for multiple medical practices he owned or operated, Bucks County Courier Times reported Aug. 16.

More than half of physicians have felt pressure from an employer to upcode a service in order to drive up RVUs, according to Medscape’s 2024 “Physicians and RVUs Report,” published Aug. 16. 

Nearly three in four physicians have felt pressure from their workplaces to squeeze in more patient visits to add RVUs and greater reimbursements for the business, according to Medscape’s 2024 “Medscape Physicians and RVUs Report,” published Aug. 16.&n…

A man in Port Richey, Fla., has pleaded guilty for his role in a $39.5 million healthcare fraud case that involved physician kickbacks. 

Healthcare bankruptcies have slowed since a five-year high in 2023, when 12 hospitals and health systems filed for bankruptcy, according to a report published Aug. 14 by Gibbins Advisors, a healthcare restructuring consulting firm.

Lubbock, Texas-based Covenant High Plains Surgery Center has earned the Optum Bariatric Center of Excellence designation from the Clinical Sciences Institute. 

Here are five multimillion-dollar false claims settlements in the last three months:

United Urology Group recently experienced a data breach that involved sensitive patient information.

A newly introduced bipartisan bill, the Physician Led and Rural Access to Quality Care Act,  aims to loosen restrictions on physician-owned hospitals.