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Note: Administrators are listed in alphabetical order. Margaret Acker (Blake Woods Medical Park Surgery Center, Jackson, Mich.)Ms. Acker is CEO of Blake Woods Medical Park Surgery Center, a three-OR, multi-specialty center in Michigan. Blake Woods’s surgeons perform around 6,000 cases…
Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa (Calif.) has dropped plans for a physician-owned medical center, planned as part of its 70-bed expansion project, because it would not meet the new requirements for physician-ownership put in place by the healthcare reform…
Declining reimbursements, uncertainties about the future and the hassles and costs of running a practice have all combined to make many of today's physicians yearn for some sense of security. In a growing number of cases, they have found it…
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has announced its support of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision to reject the application of Johnson & Johnson's SEDASYS Computer-Assisted Personalized Sedation System, according to an ASA news release.
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Here are the anesthesia claims modifiers and guidance for when to report them, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service's Medicare Claims Processing Manual.
Akron (Ohio) Children's Hospital has received an A1 bond rating from Moody's Investors Service, according to a report from Crain's Cleveland Business.
Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have found that an investigational form of naproxen, called nitric oxide-donating naproxen (NO-naproxen), can block one of the earliest molecular changes that lead to colorectal cancer development while also reducing gastrointestinal toxicity, a relatively…
A Suffolk County (Mass.) Superior Court judge has ordered insurers Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Fallon Community Health Plan to base premium increases off of 2009 rates, rather than higher figures the plans had hoped to use to determine 2010…