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Group purchasing organizations are prepared to adopt Global Location Numbers to identify healthcare provider locations, according to a Health Industry Group Purchasing Association news release.
A former podiatrist who practiced in Gates, N.Y., and pleaded guilty to bilking more than $400,000 from Medicare is now facing allegations that he provided patient care without a medical license, according to a Democrat and Chronicle news report.
A former sports medicine and family practice physician from North Wildwood, N.J., who pleaded not guilty to healthcare fraud charges, has lost his bid to reinstate his medical license, according to a Press of Atlantic City report.
A group of physicians has formed a new medical society called America's Medical Society in an attempt to bring together individual physicians and medical groups that are disenfranchised with the American Medical Association and oppose healthcare reform, according to an…