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Republican Senators are gearing up to fight the nomination of Donald Berwick, MD, as CMS administrator, focusing on his love for Britain's government-run National Health Service, according to a report by Politico.

Kathleen McCullough, the former office manager of a plastic surgery center in Pittsburgh, Pa., was convicted of embezzling more than $140,000 from the center and another $1.2 million from an engineering firm where she served as controller, according to a…

The survival and success of ASCs relies on recruiting physicians who can bring patients to the table, and having enough physicians and cases to keep ASCs profitable. But many ASCs are finding that recruiting new physicians to help the facility…

R. Blake Curd, MD, an orthopedic surgeon who is running for the GOP nomination to unseat Democrat Stephanie Herseth Sandlin for South Dakota's only House seat, is asking for support as the election date of June 8 approaches.

Generous federal subsidies to the newly unemployed for COBRA health insurance expired June 1, according to a report by Insurance Networking News.

In a poll asking Americans to name parts of the new health reform law they would most like to see the GOP repeal, more respondents would leave the law intact than strip anything out of it, according to a release…

Northside Hospital in Atlanta has announced plans to develop a multispecialty outpatient surgery center in Alpharetta, Ga., according to a report by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Franklin Beltre, DPM, of Houston, was sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay $691,000 in restitution for defrauding Medicare and Medicaid programs, according to a report by the Houston Chronicle.

The Idaho Orthopaedic Society, a Boise orthopedic practice and five orthopedists have agreed to settle a lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice and Idaho Attorney General involving allegations of antitrust conspiracies involving a boycott of workers' compensation patients by…

The 21.3 percent Medicare physician fee cut automatically went into effect today, but CMS is instructing Medicare contractors to hold physicians' Medicare claims for the first 10 business days in June to give Congress a chance to avert the cut.