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Adil Haider, MD, of Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston published a study in JAMA Surgery with his colleagues, finding doctors may have biases in favor of or against different races and social…

Here are the national health spending projections from 2013 to 2033, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The National Patient Safety Foundation recently added Zynx Health to the NPSF Patient Safety Coalition.

Here are the stock reports from five ambulatory surgery center companies for March 19, 2015 and how they compare to their numbers last week on March 13.

In the five years since its inception the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has made dramatic changes in the healthcare field, not the least of which is the birth of nearly a 100 new companies. A recent report from…

According to a new 2014 CAQH Index, U.S. healthcare could save $8 billion annually by transitioning six routine business transactions (claim submission, eligibility and benefit verification, prior authorization, claim status inquiries, claim payment and remittance advice transactions) from manual to…

The University of Alabama at Birmingham National Alumni Society gave Marc Michelson, MD, the UAB Excellence in Business Top 25 Class of 2015 Award.

The global infection control market is expected to be worth $14 billion by 2017, according to a MarketsandMarkets report. 

The 59th Medical Wing of the Air Force now employs the mass notification system Desktop Alert for emergency preparedness. According to a press release, this system allows the wing to access a secure on notification system to send messages offsite…

HHS recently reiterated, in the Compendium of Unimplemented Recommendations March 2015, the suggestion of site-neutral payments by CMS to both hospitals and ASCs for procedures deemed 'low-risk.'