The comment period for the CMS CY 2025 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Proposed Rule recently closed on Monday, September 9th. Based on previous years, the Final Rule can be expected
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New Jersey Surgical Practice Licensure Bill Moves Closer To Becoming Law
New Jersey health care facility licensure bill would require one-room surgical practices to obtain state licensure.
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Pennsylvania Adds 19 New Outpatient Surgery Centers
Pennsylvania Adds 19 New Outpatient Surgery Centers…
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The Race to Complete Physician-Owned Hospitals Is On
For physicians in the process of developing physician-owned hospitals, the race is on to get those facilities up and running by December, 2010. The recently enacted “Health Care and
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New Requirements on Stark In-Office Ancillary Services
Among its many provisions, the newly signed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has imposed a new requirement on physicians who rely on the Stark "In-Office Ancillary Services" exception. Physicians who refer patients…
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Advanced Imaging Suppliers To be Accredited by January 2012
Under the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA), all Medicare suppliers of the technical component of advanced imaging services have until by January 1, 2012 to…
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Diagnostic Imaging Centers Continue to Struggle
As was predicted by many, the Deficit Reduction Act is continuing to cause a major shake-out in the imaging center industry. According to the Florida Business Journal, a major Florida-based…
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Dems’ Medicare Bill Would Prohibit Physician Investment in Hospitals
Much has been in the news lately about the Children’s Health and Medicare Protection (CHAMP) Act of 2007 recently introduced by the House democrats. The Bill’s proponents claim that if enacted it…
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Thinking of Joint Venturing with Your Hospital?
As lucrative ancillary services continue shift from hospitals to outpatient sites, hospitals are anxious to find ways to keep they’re hand in the mix. Not surprisingly, physician-hospital joint ventures are all…
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Final Stark Regulations Delayed — Again!
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today in the federal register that it will delay publication of the much anticipated Phase III final Stark self-referral regulations (which…