HHS has issued two sets of proposed regulations that clarify standards hospitals, physicians and other providers must meet to be eligible for $14.1 billion and $27.3 billion in funding under the HITECH Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment…
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Tom Mallon, CEO and founder of Regent Surgical Health, a developer of surgery centers and physician-owned hospitals across the country, has been appointed to a three-year term to the board of directors of Physician Hospitals of America — a trade…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued Transmittal 1867 (pdf), which is designed to help physicians, non-physician practitioners and hospitals, as well as Medicare Administrative Contractors, to help prevent misuse of modifiers used to identify adverse events and…
Panama City, Fla.-based orthopedic surgeon Weems Roland McArthur, MD, passed away on Dec. 29, 2009, after a three-month battle with pulmonary fibrosis, according to a report from WJHG News.
Heritage Valley Health System has opened its new endoscopy center in Moon Township, Pa., according to a Heritage Valley news release.
Physicians at one of Mayo Clinic's primary-care clinics in Glendale, Ariz., will stop accepting Medicare as payment for services, according to a report in BusinessWeek.
A German-based research team found that the incidence of colorectal neoplasms was less in patients who had undergone colonoscopy in the previous 10-year period when compared with patients who had not received a colonoscopy, according to an article published in…
Oswego (N.Y.) Hospital has agreed to pay more than $2.1 million to the Office of Inspector General for the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General to settle…
Orthopedic Specialists of the Four States has opened its new $8 million replacement facility in Galena, Kan., near the Missouri state line, according to a report in The Joplin Globe.
St. Francis Hospital and Health Centers has filed suit against three OrthoIndy-affiliated physicians over their involvement in planning Indiana Orthopaedic Hospital South in Greenwood, Ind., according to a report by the Indianapolis Star.