The Minnesota Attorney General is suing two Texas-based companies that sell discount health insurance cards, claiming they used deceptive marketing practices, according to a release from the Attorney General.
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The former operations chief of a psychiatric hospital in Lemont, Ill. received a 15-month prison sentence for his role in a Medicaid kickback scheme, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
ASCs outperform hospitals in offering patients easy access to pricing information, estimating costs, offering discounts and providing the best value for surgery, according to a research paper from the Healthcare Blue Book.
Following a two-hour meeting with Congressional Republicans, President Obama held a news conference in which he laid out the kind of reforms he would consider, according to a transcript from the White House.
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is expected to include a 3 percent tax on physicians' gross receipts as part of her budget proposal to the state legislature, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Economic and generational shifts have resulted in many experts predicting changes in how orthopedic and spine services are run in hospitals. Here are four trends in how hospitals and ASCs operate orthopedics and spine lines.
Research from investigators at Children's Hospital Boston has shown that surfactants, when used along with anesthetics, can reduce sciatic nerve pain without impairing movement, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
Pittsburgh-based Highmark, Pennsylvania's largest Blues-affiliated insurer, is protesting an information request from the state insurance department, saying that the state is overstepping its authority in conducting reviews of the state's four Blues carriers, according to a report in American Medical…
More than 500 physicians participated in a discussion, "FTC - Refusal to accept Medicare pricing = Price Fixing," on Sermo, an online community for physicians, according to a Sermo news release.
Chicago-based NovaMed, a leading operator of ambulatory surgery centers in partnership with physicians, reported total net revenue growth to $39.8 million for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2009, up 10 percent from $36.2 million in the prior year fourth…