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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has rejected a computer-assisted anesthesia system that uses propofol manufactured by Johnson & Johnson, after an advisory panel recommended its approval last May, according to an Associated Press report in the San Francisco Chronicle.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has informed Medicare contractors that the interest rate for Medicare over- and underpayments has dropped to 10.875 percent, effective April 23, 2010, according to CMS Transmittal 166.

The number of new medical malpractice suits in Pennsylvania fell to 1,533 in 2009 from 1,602 new cases in 2008, according to a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Here are the 10 states with the lowest number of surgery centers in the United States, according to SDI Health. For a list of the states with the most ASCs, click here.

Mentor, Ohio-based US Endoscopy is planning a $4.7 million expansion, so the company can continue to design, make and sell its gastrointestinal endoscopy products, with the goal of moving into other specialties, according to a report in MedCity News.

Douglas Carlan, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in surgery of the hand and upper extremity at Eaton Orthopedics and Carillon Surgery Center in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Hans Lobato of Miami has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud for engaging in a $7.4 million fraudulent medical testing scheme, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release.

The United States has intervened in a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging that Satilla Regional Medical Center in Waycross, Ga., and Najam Azmat, MD, submitted claims for medically substandard and unnecessary services to Medicare and Medicaid, according to a Department…

Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that four healthcare organizations have recently selected its ProVation software for various healthcare technology needs, according to several news releases by Wolters Kluwer.

Georganna Howell is the administrator of Greenspring Surgery Center in Baltimore, part of OrthoMaryland.