Paul F. Barresi, MD, an anesthesiologist, has rejoined the active medical staff at Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockland, Maine, according to a news release from Pen Bay Healthcare.
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Allen Ambulatory Surgery Center in Waterloo, Iowa, the ASC of Allen Health System, recently completed a $10 million expansion, according to a report by the Waterloo Daily Courier.
Roberto Gugig, MD, will join the staff at Kaweah Delta Health Care District's Exeter (Calf.) Pediatric Clinic as a pediatric gastroenterologist, according to a report in the Visalia Times-Delta.
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…
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…