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Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Healthcare announced that Bingyun Li, PhD, has been awarded a Collaborative Exchange Award from the Orthopaedic Research Society.

Kansas City (Mo.) Foot and Ankle announced the addition of Stephanie B. Jameson, DPM, to its medical practice.

Howard A. King, MD, and Kevin G. Shea, MD, gave tips on how they cut infection rates in AAOS Now.

Hospital for Special Surgery has received the 2013 Guardian of Excellence Award from Press Ganey Associates.

Javon Bea, president and CEO of Janesville, Wis.-based Mercy Health System, and two experts from Towers Watson shared their thoughts on successful hospital-physician partnerships at the Becker's Hospital Review Annual CEO Roundtable on Nov. 14 in Chicago.

Physician leaders at the American Medical Association's interim meeting of its House of Delegates have called for Congress to repeal Medicare's physician payment formula, the sustainable growth rate, by the year's end.

Compared with 10 other industrialized countries, the U.S. healthcare system is far more expensive and cumbersome, according to a new survey from The Commonwealth Fund.

The White House is working to allow health insurers to bypass the glitch-ridden federal exchange site, HealthCare.gov, according to a report from The Hill.

As the physician-led, team-based model of healthcare delivery continues to spread, the question of how these teams should be reimbursed has yet to be settled. But to further the conversation, the American Medical Association recently adopted recommendations for creating payment…

The Obama administration has said 20 percent of Americans still won't complete the process of purchasing insurance through HealthCare.gov at the end of this month, according to a report from The Washington Post.