Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and West Valley Medical Center in Caldwell, Idaho, will continue to provide in-network medical care to all Medicare Advantage members enrolled in plans offered by Humana under terms of a renewal…
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Beverly, Mass.-based Northeast Health Systems Physician Hospital Organization have signed a five-year Alternative Quality Contract, making the organization the first North Shore physician group to adopt BCBSMA's global payment model, according to a…
Patrick D. Osei, of Brooklyn Park, Minn., has pleaded guilty to paying kickbacks in return for referrals for his home healthcare business and then billing Medicaid for the services, according to a report by the Star Tribune.
The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking to dismiss the state of Virginia's lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law to require most Americans to have health insurance by 2014, according to an AHA News Now…
Researchers from The Netherlands found that asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction was a significant predictor of 30-day cardiovascular events following surgery, indicating a need to diagnose the condition preoperatively and to better manage it around the time of surgery, according to…
John Theodore Tiano, MD, a cardiology fellow at Marshall University School of Medicine in Huntington, W.Va., has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for aiding and abetting Medicare fraud by allowing his Drug Enforcement Administration registration…
Solos Endoscopy reported $104,774 in revenues for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010, a 10 percent increase from $95,227 in the first quarter 2009, according to a Solos news release.
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Joseph "Mike" Morel, a CRNA and co-director of Huntingdon (Tenn.) Anesthesia, was honored as the 2010 recipient of the Federal Political Director of the Year Award, designed to acknowledge a CRNA who has made significant contributions to the American Association…
Researchers from Dokkyo Medical University in Japan found that estimated glomerular filtration rate is a valuable tool in indicating preoperative renal function in gastric cancer patients, according to a release from the World Journal of Gastroenterology.