On Thursday, the Obama administration will begin investigating proposed increases of health insurance premiums that exceed 9 percent, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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One hundred physicians from the roughly 120-member Missouri Medical Affiliates opted to sign individual contracts with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield before the temporary, three-month contract between the two parties expired, according to a Columbia Tribune report.
The Obama administration said last week that states that have not adopted health insurance exchanges may get a second chance to implement them before the government steps in, according to a NewsOK report.
Luann Jenkins, CPC, CPMA, CEMC, CFPC, recently addressed a Medicare denial that occurs when CMS has been involved in the settlement of a Workers' Compensation case, according to an AAPC release.
Tom Pliura, MD, JD, will be running in the upcoming Illinois state Senate race, according to a News-Gazette report.
In a panel session on Aug. 16 at the annual conference of the Association of Staff Physician Recruiters in Chicago, Scott Shipman, MD, director of healthcare affairs, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and a researcher at the Dartmouth Institute…
NorthStar Surgical Center in Lubbock, Texas, began offering total knee, uni-knee, total ankle and total shoulder procedures at the beginning of the year. The ambulatory surgery center has performed approximately 10 of the procedures so far. John D. Brock, administrator…
The first endoscopic suturing on a resection of a large polyp in the colon has been performed using Apollo Endosurgery's new OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System, according to an Apollo news release.
NIDEK has received FDA clearance for its MC-500 Vixi, a photocoagulator for eye surgery, according to a NIDEK news release.
Mauna Kea Technologies has obtained FDA clearance for its updated Cellvizio endomicroscopy system for the GI and pulmonary tracts, according to a company release.