Nashville-based HCA Healthcare and Cigna Healthcare were in negotiations over a new contract well into the final day of their current agreement on Sept. 30, the Houston Business Journal reported.
Category: ASC News
ASC chain sued for alleged age, disability discrimination
ASC chain Inova Surgery Center, an affiliate of Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health, has been charged with violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act for firing an employee because of disability and age….
How CON reform affects ASCs
According to predictions from business law firm Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, recent certificate-of-need reform will likely lead to ASC expansions in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, according to a Sept. 27 press release from …
States ranked by PAs per capita
New York has the highest number of physician assistants per capita out of any state at 85.73 PAs for every 100,000 residents.
Physician lawmakers urge Medicare fixes: 5 things to know
Physician legislators are circulating a letter asking their colleagues in Congress to address decreasing Medicare reimbursements.
Hospital, lab, physician to pay $7.2M to resolve fraudulent lab testing allegations
A hospital, a laboratory, three lab employees, a referring physician and his office manager will collectively pay more than $7.2 million to settle allegations that they defrauded government healthcare programs through unnecessary or tainted labor…
Physician, office manager to pay $450K to resolve false claims, controlled substance violations
A physician and office manager in Jackson, Ky., agreed to pay $450,000 to resolve allegations the physician unlawfully prescribed controlled substances and they both defrauded healthcare by soliciting kickbacks.
Where industry groups stand on site-neutral payments
Site-neutral payments are a policy proposal that many ASC and physician groups have long supported in an effort to even out payments between ASCs and HOPDs. ASCs historically receive lower reimbursements for the same procedures performed in HOPDs, desp…
The most profitable ASCs in Philadelphia
The Bryn Mawr, Pa.-based reproductive endocrinologist group, Main Line Fertility, was the busiest and highest revenue-producing ASC in the Philadelphia area in 2023, according to a Sept. 26 report from the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Hartford HealthCare vies to take control of 2 ASCs
Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare has submitted a proposal to the state’s Office of Health Strategy to assume control of two surgical center operators, according to a Sept. 27 report from Hartford Business.
