A new study from the University of Massachusetts Medical School found that the proportion that employers, consumers and the state government were paying on healthcare coverage was the same in 2007 as they were a year before a new statewide…
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Orthopedics is usually a breadwinner for surgery centers, but the specialty is facing a number of challenges that can reduce its profitability.
The increasing likelihood for mergers among medical insurers concerns healthcare providers who worry that the plans will have too much clout over medical care, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
Prexus Health — Prexus Health is a physician-owned healthcare consulting firm that specializes in the development and management of multi-specialty, physician-owned ASCs, small hospitals, imaging centers, physical therapy services and anatomical pathology labs. The company provides a full range of…
The Medical Group Management Association's (MGMA's) Medical Directorship/On Call Compensation Survey: 2009 Report Based on 2008 Data found that hospital compensation provided to independent physicians serving as hospital medical directors was substantially more than when hospitals pay an employed physician…
PINNACLE Centralized Billing Office, a division of PINNACLE III, a leading operations and management company for ASCs, has changed its name to Specialty Billing Solutions and has expanded its services to include physician billing, according to a PINNACLE III news…
The American Medical Association announced that it will eliminate 100 positions due to the economy, according to an AMA news release.
SourceMedical, a leading patient information solutions and services provider for ASCs, surgical hospitals and rehabilitation clinics, has announced the immediate and exclusive availability of Surgical Notes' SourcePlus Transcription application for SourceMedical customers, according to a SourceMedical news release.
A new surgery center in Stratham, N.H., is set to open Apr. 20, according to a report in the Portsmouth Herald.
A study by Motorola has found that more than 80 percent of global information technology decision makers within the healthcare industry reported that mobile technologies were more important to their organizations today than they were in 2008, according to a…