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AMA President J. James Rohack criticized a measure that would temporarily stave off a 21-percent cut in Medicare payments to physicians as a "Band-Aid approach," according to a report by Bloomberg featured by Business Week. The Medicare payment cuts are…

Unless Congress acts, the federal COBRA subsidy to help laid-off workers pay for health insurance will expire May 31, and on Feb. 28 new applicants won't have access to the subsidies, according to the Kansas City Star.

President Obama highlights the unsustainable rate of growth of healthcare spending and renews a call for healthcare reform proposals that stalled late last year in his Economic Report of the President to Congress, released Feb. 11.

The Minnesota Attorney General is suing two Texas-based companies that sell discount health insurance cards, claiming they used deceptive marketing practices, according to a release from the Attorney General.

The former operations chief of a psychiatric hospital in Lemont, Ill. received a 15-month prison sentence for his role in a Medicaid kickback scheme, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.

Following a two-hour meeting with Congressional Republicans, President Obama held a news conference in which he laid out the kind of reforms he would consider, according to a transcript from the White House.

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is expected to include a 3 percent tax on physicians' gross receipts as part of her budget proposal to the state legislature, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Economic and generational shifts have resulted in many experts predicting changes in how orthopedic and spine services are run in hospitals. Here are four trends in how hospitals and ASCs operate orthopedics and spine lines.

Pittsburgh-based Highmark, Pennsylvania's largest Blues-affiliated insurer, is protesting an information request from the state insurance department, saying that the state is overstepping its authority in conducting reviews of the state's four Blues carriers, according to a report in American Medical…

More than 500 physicians participated in a discussion, "FTC - Refusal to accept Medicare pricing = Price Fixing," on Sermo, an online community for physicians, according to a Sermo news release.