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An HHS official said people with preexisting conditions who cannot buy commercial insurance could pay as much as $900 a month in premiums for new high-risk insurance pools set up in each state under the healthcare reform law, according to…

When the state of Texas cuts Medicaid reimbursements by 1 percent on Sept. 1, hundreds of physicians might bail out of Medicaid, according to a report by the Dallas Morning News.

CMS' Hospital Compare website now includes new data on imaging rates at each hospital, according to a report by the Florida Times-Union.

B. Braun has announced the availability of large volume heparin infusion solutions.

Gbolahan Okubadejo, MD, has been named head of the newly opened Comprehensive Spine Institute of New Jersey , according to the Jersey City Independent.

Surgery Center at St. Andrews in Venice, Fla., is featured in a report by ABC 7 for its use of new technology to treat cataract surgery.

As president of the California Ambulatory Surgery Association and manager of the Davis (Calif.) Surgery Center, Shannon Blakeley is a vehement advocate of surgery centers. In a June interview with the Sacramento Business Journal, he argued that by paying surgery…

Now that Don Berwick, MD, is starting his new job as CMS administrator, his old job as CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement has been given to his former COO, according to a release from IHI.

The OIG has announced it has entered into a $7.3 million civil settlement agreement with Chicago-based, physician-owned United Shockwave Services, United Prostate Centers and United Urology Centers (United) over charges that United violated federal anti-kickback laws.

Santa Ana, Calif.-based National Cardio Labs has agreed to pay $3.6 million to resolve allegations that the heart monitoring company defrauded Medicare, TRICARE and commercial insurers contracted through the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, according to a report by the…