Automatic implementation of a 21.2 percent Medicare physician fee cut on March 1 was a surprise to Senate Democrats who were stymied by a lone Republican senator, according to a report by The Hill.
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In a rare showing of bipartisan agreement, the U.S. House voted 406-19 to repeal health plans' exemption from federal antitrust laws, according to a release from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
On Jan. 19, orthopedic surgeon Daniel Zanotti, MD, of the Center for Orthopedics in Sheffield Village, Ohio, performed the first Patient-Specific Instrumentation knee replacement in Ohio, according to a release from the Center for Orthopedics.
Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Del., has agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle claims made by a whistleblower that the health system allegedly paid kickback to neurologists for referring patients to its Wilmington hospital, according to a report…
Deerfield, Ill.-based Baxter International, a global, diversified healthcare company, has entered into a definitive agreement with ApaTech, a private equity-backed, U.K.-based orthobiologic products company, in which Baxter will acquire all of the outstanding equity of ApaTech for total consideration of…
George Steven Kooshian, an AIDS physician based in La Quinta, Calif., was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to federal healthcare fraud charges for "subdosing" patients by administering doses of medicine that contained less than the…
UnitedHealthcare and Aetna have reversed their spinal procedure policies to cover Xtreme Lateral Interbody Fusion, or XLIF, according to news releases from NuVasive, a medical device company focused on developing products for minimally invasive spine surgery.
Although a 21.2 percent physician fee cut is going into effect today, CMS has instructed Medicare contractors to hold claims for the first 10 business days to allow Congress time to pass a fee fix, according to a release by…
Michael Behr, MD, an orthopedic surgeon in Fayette, Ga., south of Atlanta, likes the convenience of walking directly into his own ASC after working over at the hospital.
Joint Replacement Hospitals of America plans to construct a joint replacement center in Buellton, Calif., according to a report by the Santa Ynez Valley Journal.