Several studies presented at Digestive Disease Week examined the adherence to colorectal cancer screening, including colonoscopy and fecal occult blood testing, by ethnicity and recommended screening strategy, according to a DDW news release.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released updated payment files for the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule as well as retroactive provisions for measures extended through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to CMS Transmittal 700.
Twenty-five surgical societies, representing more than 240,000 surgeons and anesthesiologists, sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, urging Congress to enact Medicare physician payment reform to stop scheduled payment cuts to physicians, according to a news release from the…
The Obama administration has issued rules detailing how health insurers must cover to subscribers' children up to the age of 26 under the healthcare reform law, according to a report by the New York Times.
Construction has begun on Red Hills Surgical Center, a joint venture between Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial Hospital and 35 local physicians, according to a report by the Tallahassee Democrat.
While Florida gained more than 27,000 RNs in the past two years, losses to the nurse workforce erased 60 percent of that gain, according to a report by the Jacksonville Business Journal.
Ajibola Adekeunle Sadiqr, the owner and operator of a Los Angeles durable medical equipment company was sentenced to 55 months in prison in connection with a nearly $1 million power wheelchair fraud scheme, according to a news release by the…
Saints Medical Center in Lowell, Mass., self-reported to the federal government technical violations of the Stark Act in contracts with physicians, according to a report by The Sun.
Missourians will be the first to vote on the new health insurance mandate in a measure to appear on the state's Aug. 3 primary ballot, according to a report by KMOV TV.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as the health reform law, contains more than a thousand pages of often fairly obscure provisions, but Section 3022 has particular significance for hospitals and physicians in the future, says Brian…