The FDA unveiled an initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from CT scans, nuclear medicine studies and fluoroscopy, the three procedures that are the greatest contributors to radiation exposure in the U.S., according to an FDA press release.
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Mergers and acquisitions among hospitals were down 13 percent in 2009, and dollar volume of the transactions was down 35 percent, according to a news release from Irving Levin Associates.
Matrix Surgery Center in Saginaw, Mich., opened in 2006 as a $3 million, 3,500-square-foot expansion to pain management practice Matrix Pain Management. The center's development was spearheaded by Richard Lingenfelter, MD, an anesthesiologist and pain management physician and one of…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made available a file that lists the National Provider Identifier and the name of all physicians and non-physician practitioners who are eligible to order and refer in the Medicare program and who…
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General released its Justification of Estimates for Appropriations Committees report for fiscal year 2011 proposed budget, which included a $40 million increase to continue to support and increase efforts…
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has called upon Anthem Blue Cross of California to justify its recent rate hikes, which are set to go into effect March 1, according to a report by the Los…
While most business sectors have seen a slowdown in merger and acquisition activity during the current financial and credit crisis, the hospital sector continues to see a significant level of activity. The driving forces for this activity have changed and…
Anthem Blue Cross, California's largest for-profit health insurer, is raising premiums for individual insurance policies by 30-39 percent on March 1, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.
In what may be an unprecedented prosecution, Anne Mitchell was scheduled to stand trial Feb. 8 in a Texas court for "misuse of official information," a third-degree felony charge, after reporting a physician last April to the Texas Medical Board…
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries will take a $315 million charge in its fourth quarter in connection with a settlement to resolve a drug-pricing lawsuit brought by Ven-A-Care of the Florida Keys against several of the company's U.S. subsidiaries, according to a…