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The law firm of McGuireWoods is hosting "Healthcare Litigation Trends: Managed Care, Non-Competes, Antitrust," a complimentary teleconference on Jan. 29 from noon to 12:45 p.m. CST (1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. EST) regarding recent developments and trends in healthcare litigation.

Orthopaedics Northeast, with more than 10 locations in Indiana, is planning to build a new surgery center, according to the Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly.

For a cardiovascular program to become successful, it requires several critical components, says Edward Kasper, MD, FACC, chief of clinical cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

A revolution in healthcare is under way, and it is not in the form of the much heralded reform effort building on Capitol Hill. The consumerization of healthcare is happening now. Patients and their families increasingly approach healthcare decisions as…

In anticipation of a new presidential administration, CMS has recapped its roadmap for reshaping Medicare’s traditional fee-for-service program through market-based and value-purchasing initiatives intended to improve quality and reduce costs.

HHS' Inspector General Daniel Levinson has announced that the agency charged with protecting Medicare and Medicaid and other HHS' program funding from waste, fraud and error recovered $2.35 billion in fiscal 2008 ending Sept. 30, 2008.

Whenever someone asks me what it takes to succeed in the ASC business, I immediately tell them about "the five C's." These are the five core concepts or competencies that must be mastered by physician-owners at all types of ASCs,…

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use the most stringent pre-market review process in approving high-risk medical devices, according to a GAO report.

Shortly after settling with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the nation’s second largest health insurer, Minneapolis-based UnitedHealth Group, agreed to pay $350 million to resolve a class action lawsuit with the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Medical Society,…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released uniform policies to prevent Medicare and its beneficiaries from paying for three so-called “never events” — serious, preventable errors, according to a CMS news release.