Amidst the legislative chaos created by the implosion of health reform following this week's Massachusetts election, physician groups are getting anxious that Congress won't perform its usual eleventh-hour fix of the automatic Medicare physician fee cut.
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After Senate Democrats lost their filibuster-proof majority in a Massachusetts special election, President Obama told ABC News he would consider scaling back Congressional health reform legislation, according to a transcript of the ABC News interview.
Rex Healthcare will submit a Certificate of Need application to the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation for three new operating rooms — two rooms at Rex's Holly Springs, N.C., facility, to be completed in 2012, and one for…
Charles C. Njoku, MD, of Powell, Ohio, and Veronica Scott-Guiler of Orient, Ohio, were indicted on 14 counts of making false statements tied to healthcare payments, one count of healthcare fraud and four counts of illegal distribution of controlled substances,…
University Medical Center in Lebanon, Tenn., has broken ground on its new ambulatory surgery center, located on UMC's main campus, according to a report in The Tennessean.
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With health reform, President Obama had a great opportunity to correct some rampant flaws in the healthcare system. But for several reasons, which I'll itemize, the reform process has become its own worst enemy. The election in Massachusetts is the…
As the health reform bill, with its ban on physician-owned hospitals, flounders in Congress, officials at the Physician Hospitals of America are cautiously optimistic that the ban may not take place.
In a Dec. 2009 online survey, 51.9 percent of members of the American Academy of Ophthalmology cited anti-vascular endothelial growth factors for "wet" age-related macular degeneration as the most significant advancement in treatment over the past decade, according to an…
The Wisconsin Senate has approved a bill that would allow parents of adult children to sue medical providers for pain and suffering if their children died as a result of medical negligence, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune.