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Physician Hospitals of America is hosting its annual legislative conference and fly-in March 17-18 in Washington D.C.

Joseph Zuckerman, MD, was elected president of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons at its annual meeting in Las Vegas, according to an AAOS news release.

More than half (53 percent) of Americans skipped medical care in the past year due to cost, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's first healthcare tracking poll of 2009.

A federal district court dismissed a suit brought by Stryker Corp., which was seeking to quash a subpoena issued by the U.S. Department of Justice, according to published reports.

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) introduced a bill in the House under which the federal government would act as a single payor, according to a news release from his office.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison recommended new conflict-of-interest rules for its physicians, according to a report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Q: We are a single-specialty ASC doing pain management procedures only. Can you tell me a benchmark for pain management staff hours per case and a formula for calculating it?

Northeast Health, St. Peter's Health Care Services and Seton Health, all located in the Albany, N.Y., region, will form an affiliation to share services between the secular and Catholic hospitals, according to a report from Fox 23 in Albany.

Medtronic announced that it will voluntarily disclose all payments to physicians in excess of $5,000 per year, according to a Medtronic news release.

Robert Carrera, president of PINNACLE III, an ASC development and management firm, identifies the following seven obstacles to steer clear of when planning and partnering physician/hospital joint-venture ASCs.