On Monday, the New Jersey Senate passed a bill that would require half a million teachers, police officers, firefighters and other public workers to pay a portion of their health insurance premiums based on income, according to an AJC report.
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Stephen Boyce, MD, a bariatric surgeon in Knoxville, Tenn., and medical director at the New Life Center for Bariatric Surgery, discussed the FDA's recent decision to expand LAP-BAND eligibility in a San Francisco Chronicle report.
Literature concerning the effectiveness of nerve blocks with local anesthetics in neuralgia is inadequate, according to a report published in the June 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
The Louisiana House on Monday unanimously backed a proposal that would end Gov. Bobby Jindal's "coordinated care networks" on Dec. 31, 2014, unless they receive legislative reauthorization, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Illinois state employees and retirees who had yet to select an insurance plan or wanted to change an earlier selection were required to make their decisions by Monday at 5 p.m., according to a Pantagraph report.
The Texas Medical Board has disciplined four physicians, according to a KCBD news report.
Physicians are actively engaged in voluntary certification and are maintaining their certification in large numbers, according to the American Board of Medical Specialties.
The California Hospital Association and the state Department of Public Health are sparring in a lawsuit filed by CHA to halt the implementation of a new reporting mandate that was scheduled to go into effect June 1, 2011, in the…
The owner of a Houston healthcare company has pled guilty in connection with a $654,227 Medicare fraud scheme, according to a news release from the Department of Justice. Simone Ball, owner and operator of Preferred Plus Medical Supply, pleaded guilty…
Myrdalis Diaz-Ramirez, MD, who operates an interventional pain clinic in Sarasota, Fla., says she could be forced to close down, the victim of a regulatory backlash against a very different kind of pain clinic, "pill mills" that prescribe high volumes…