An article published in the December issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy says that more than one third of patients undergoing outpatient endoscopy are at high risk for obstructive sleep apnea, according to a report from Reuters Health.
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The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation has adopted a new fee schedule that will increase overall payments to ASCs and vocational rehabilitation providers, according to a BWC news release.
Michael L. Good, MD, has been named as the dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Fla., according to a report in the UF College of Medicine Insider.
A recent study by Duke University Medical Center researchers found that post-surgical infections significantly increase the chance of hospital readmission and death and cost as much as $60,000 per patient, according to a Duke Medicine news release.
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The Senate Democrats' health reform bill has passed the first of three votes needed for final approval of the legislation, with the final vote expected on Christmas Eve, according to a report by the New York Times.
An extension on the deadline from Feb. 1, 2010, to Aug. 1, 2010, for a proposed ban on physician-owned hospitals was included in "Manager's Amendment" to the Senate health reform bill just before it went to a vote, according to…
Ehigiator O. Akhigbe, MD, of Silver Spring, Md., was convicted on charges he overcharged the Washington, D.C., Medicaid program $133,000 for office visits and surgeries he never performed, according to a report in the Washington Post.
Tom Hejkal, MD, PhD, has been named McGaw Memorial Chairman of the University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences in Omaha, Neb., according to a UNMC news release.