With college graduations starting, the Obama administration will ask insurers to allow young adults to say on their parents' plans until age 26 rather than wait until this standard is required on Sept. 23, according to report by ABC News.
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Under CEO Michael Young, Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta has reached a positive operating margin for the first time in a decade, according to a report by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Specific characteristics of the area in which an ASC is located can have a direct impact on the ASC's value. Here are seven specific market risk factors and the relative importance ASC operators place on each factor, according to VMG…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will increase the multiple procedure payment reduction on the technical component of certain diagnostic imaging procedures from 25 percent to 50 percent, effective July 1, 2010, according to CMS Transmittal 694.
Sarah Martin is regional vice president of operations of Meridian Surgical Partners.
Although colonoscopy is stressed as the preferred screening test for colorectal cancer, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco found that recommending colonoscopy resulted in lower adherence compared with fecal occult blood test or a choice of the two…
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has launched an application for mobile devices that allows anesthesiologists and other clinicians to monitor patients, check vital signs, communicate with other providers and peer into operating rooms during surgeries all from the convenience of their…
The healthcare industry saw the addition of 20,100 jobs in April 2010, according to a news release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A 2.3 percent tax on medical device companies that was part of the new healthcare reform law has many companies in Massachusetts eyeing plans to reduce costs, including job cuts, according to a report in Mass High Tech: The Journal…
Dallas, Texas-based Rainier Medical Investments has launched the Physicians First Fund, a $10 million physician-only investment fund that will provide capital to acquire and develop medical facilities including medical office buildings, ASCs and hospitals.