Yasser Awaad, MD, a Dearborn, Mich.-based pediatric neurologist is accused of diagnosing patients with epilepsy when in fact the patients were healthy in order to increase the volume of tests he performed at Oakwood Hospital & Medical Center in Dearborn,…
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The Department of Health and Human Services has allocated $250 million of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act funds to expand the primary care workforce, according to a report by AHA News Now.
The journal Health Affairs has published a study that indicates oncologists made up for reductions in payments by providing more chemotherapy and treatment using agents with higher margins. The authors essentially claim physicians increased the percentage of of lung cancer…
Implementation of the 21.3 percent cut in Medicare physician fees is due to kick in on Friday, following a lopsided defeat of the fee fix provision in the Senate Wednesday, as part of a package extending unemployment insurance and aid…
As a pain management specialist, Scott Glaser, MD, works to help patients with chronic pain restore quality of life, increase function and regain wholeness. He has worked with his Pain Specialists of Greater Chicago co-founder Ira Goodman, MD, for over…
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Nicola V. Hawkinson MA, RNFA, NP, CEO and founder of SpineSearch, offers the following five tips to help surgery centers and practices recruit great physicians and staff.
Peak One Surgery Center in Frisco, Colo., provided free surgery to 13 uninsured patients on June 12, according to multiple news reports.
The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, two of its member hospitals — Fort Hamilton Hospital and University Hospital — and University Internal Medicine Associates have agreed to pay the United States $2.6 million to settle claims that they violated the…
Peter W. Carmel, MD, a pediatric neurosurgeon from New York City with a practice in Newark, N.J., has been named president-elect of the American Medical Association, according to an AMA release.
Senate Democrats are likely to reduce their proposed 11-month physician fee-fix to seven months and put it up for a Senate vote today, according to a report by Fox News.