James Weber, MD, is a gastroenterologist with Texas Digestive Disease Consultants in Keller, Texas.
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The American Society of Anesthesiologists announced that it does not support the current Medicare Physician Fee Fix in the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010, as it does not provide provisions to fix the sustainable growth rate,…
Officials from Miami-Dade County are questioning the calculations financially struggling Jackson Health System is using to determine how they are closing in on a $230 million budget deficit, according to a report in The Miami Herald.
Frost & Sullivan has presented Ansell Healthcare Europe with its "2010 European Surgical Gloves Product Quality Leadership Award" for its Encore range of surgical gloves, according to a Frost & Sullivan news release.
Xinming Fu, MD, an Irvine, Calif.-based physician, was the last of 17 defendants to be sentenced in a $15 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to a report by the Mercury News.
LaTanicia McMillan Rogers and Wayne Rogers, both of Moss Point, Miss., have been convicted for their roles in an $18 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to a report by the Sun Herald.
A new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation predicts that states will bear only a small part of the financial burden of Medicaid expansion provisions set in place by the healthcare reform law, with the federal government covering most of…
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Canonsburg (Pa.) General Hospital is expected to open an outpatient complex that includes a surgery center in Peters, Pa., within the next 18 months, according to the Observer-Reporter.
Here are three statistics on on-call coverage for gastroenterologists, according to HealthCare Appraisers' Healthcare Transactions 2009 Year in Review.