President Barack Obama apologized in an NBC News interview Thursday for the cancellation of thousands of people's health insurance under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Only a small portion of the exchanges' primary target population has visited or attempted to visit a government health insurance exchange website so far, according to a Gallup poll.
The following hospital and health system executive moves occurred within the past week, beginning with the most recent.
Hal Silcox, III, MD, is a spine surgeon and partner at Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic, Duluth, Ga. He previously served as chief of spine surgery at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the resident/spine surgery fellowship education coordinator at Emory…
Providers must be prepared in a number of different areas when transitioning to ICD-10, according to a whitepaper released by SourceMedical, a provider of therapy software and ambulatory surgery center software solutions and billing services.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has certain precautions it requires practices to take with regard to employee safety with regard to radiology, and failing to follow these precautions could result in OSHA penalties, according to an email news release…
The Orthopaedic & Spine Center in Newport News, Va., announced the launch of its inaugural online campaign via Facebook in support of the Foodbank of the Virginia Peninsula.
How Will the Future Shape the Practice of Spine Surgery? Q&A With Dr. Ziya Gokaslan of Johns Hopkins
Ziya Gokaslan, MD, is the vice chairman of neurosurgery and director of the neurosurgical spine center at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. He is also a board-certified neurological surgeon and a professor of neurological surgery, orthopedic surgery and oncology at…
Sigurd Berven, MD, professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of California San Francisco gave a presentation titled "Determining Value Through Identification of Independent Predictors of the Cost for Spine Surgery," at the North American Spine Society Annual Meeting in…
Summit Healthcare Regional Medical Center in Show Low, Ariz., announced the addition of Terrence Crowder, MD, to its medical staff.