A 65 percent federal subsidy to enhance COBRA health insurance premiums for the newly unemployed will end on April 1 because the Senate failed to pass a bill extending it before Congress went into a two-week recess, according to Kaiser…
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The Physician Sunshine Payment Act, part of the new health reform law, is expected to discourage payments to physicians from medical device and pharmaceutical companies, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal Health Blog.
While the new health reform law may seem threatening to many Americans, it is pure poison for physician-owned hospitals, which are being forced to drop plans for new hospitals and immediately halt expansion projects.Some 60 hospitals in planning have only…
Signature Medical Group, one of the largest physician owned medical practices in the St. Louis area, has added Gateway Gastroenterology, an eight-physician GI practice with two locations in St. Louis, according to a Signature Medical news release.
A survey of nearly 14,000 surgeons and anesthesiologists, members of the nation's Surgical Coalition, showed that less than one-third of physician currently participating in Medicare would be able to continue under the 21.2 percent fee cut scheduled to go into…
Una Favorite Brown of New Orleans was sentenced to 21 months imprisonment for healthcare fraud offenses and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $33,305, according to a Department of Justice news release.
The Georgia House of Representatives has approved a bill (H.B. 307) that would levy a 1.45 percent patient revenue tax on most hospitals in the state, but amended a previous version of the bill that would have also levied the…
President Obama is expected to appoint Donald Berwick, MD, a pediatrician, Harvard professor and president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which has been without a permanent leader since Oct.…
Spine Surgery is performed with increasing frequency in ASCs around the country. As a result, ASCs are being forced to reexamine their approach to ensuring efficiency while maintaining appropriate levels of patient safety. The need to increase operating room efficiency…
Presented by the ASC Association, Ambulatory Surgery Foundation, ASC Communications and Becker’s ASC Review ASC Communications and the Ambulatory Surgery Foundation present the 17th Annual Improving Profitability, and Business and Legal Issues for ASCs Conference, held Oct. 21-23 in Chicago.…