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In an Oct. 4 webinar titled "How the HITECH Regulations Impact the Use of Health Information Technology in ASCs," Robert Hussey, head of the government relations practice at Minneapolis-based Snow Communications, discussed how "meaningful use" requirements apply to ambulatory surgery…
The Bariatric Surgery Center at Rose Medical Center in Denver recently became the first facility in the state to offer lap-band surgery to teenagers, according to a Rose Medical Center release.
The special deficit reduction panel of the U.S. Congress may target Medicare supplemental health plans, according to a Reuters report.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott is preparing to launch an insurance marketplace that looks distinctly different from those created under the federal healthcare reform law, according to a Washington Post report.
Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia will receive a portion of $109 million in federal grants, designed to help their efforts to analyze health plans' large premium increase requests, according to an American Medical News report.
Banner Health, the owner of McKee Medical Center in Loveland, Colo., and operator of North Colorado Medical Center in Greenley, has added Loveland Anesthesia Associates to its holdings, according to a Loveland Reporter-Herald report.
Florida-based physician Dean Fishman has coined the term "Text Neck" as a new medical condition and has opened the Text Neck Institute to treat it, a NY Daily News report said.
The family of a patient who died under anesthesia during a procedure at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago has joined the hospital's safety committee to help prevent future errors, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
Physicians are increasingly using neurostimulators to manage migraine pain, an ABC News report said.