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Speaking at the Health Information Technology Conference in Boston, David Blumenthal, MD, national coordinator for health IT, said federal dollars will be devoted to setting up grant programs to encourage students to enter IT careers in the healthcare industry should…

Wichita, Kan.-based Mid-America Orthopedics has opened a fourth location in Derby, Kan., according to a report by the Wichita Business Journal.

As The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act enters the implementation phase, politicians and health insurers are expected to battle over as to how new rules and regulations should roll out, according to a report in American Medical News.

WellPoint, which runs Anthem Blue Cross in California, withdrew its request for rate increases in California's individual insurance market after the state's insurance commissioner found flaws with the company's methodology, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

Five states — Georgia, Indiana, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming — have opted out of running their own high-risk insurance pools, according to a report by the New York Times.

Citing the state's "any-willing-provider" law, Georgia's Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine ruled that Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia must allow Northeast Georgia Cancer Care of Athens into its HMO plan, according to a report in American Medical News.

A group of orthopedic physicians in Colorado and St. Anthony Central Hospital in Denver are partnering on a $6 million orthopedic hospital opening in June, according to a report by the Denver Post.

Excessive administrative complexity related to billing costs physicians practices nearly 12 percent of their net patient revenue, according to a study in Health Affairs.

More than 56 percent of primary care providers received some form of additional compensation for on-call coverage, according to the Medical Group Management Association's Medical Directorship and On-Call Compensation Survey: 2010 Report Based on 2009 Data. Nearly half (49.43 percent)…

At the request of the American College of Radiology, House Energy & Commerce Chair Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), Ways & Means Committee Chair Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) and Ways & Means Subcommittee on Health Chair Pete Stark (D-Calif.) recently called on the…