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To coincide with the start of the NCAA's March Madness, National Medical Billing Services announced it will sponsor renowned Duke University Men's Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski's keynote speech at the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine & Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in…

CMS has once again revised penalties for hospitals under its Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, which cuts hospitals' Medicare payments up to 1 percent for higher-than-expected 30-day readmission rates for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia patients, according to a Kaiser…

Prices at all hospitals were up 0.6 percent in February compared with January, and compared with February 2012, hospital prices were up 2.6 percent, according to the most recent Producer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A study, published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, has found that the gender of a healthcare provider does not have any significant effect on healthcare costs or mortality.

The Upper Peninsula Commission for Area Progress has introduced a new chronic pain management program at the Northern Lights YMCA in Escanaba, Mich., according to a WLUC TV6 and FOX UP report.

Alison Toth, MD, a board certified orthopedic surgeon, performed successful knee surgery on Duke University basketball player Chelsea Grey in order to repair her dislocated kneecap, according to a Go Duke report.

Georgia Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Surgery, formerly the practice of Mark Cullen, MD, has been acquired by the Gainesville, Ga.-based Longstreet Clinic, according to an AccessNorthGa report.

SRS, a provider of electronic health record technology and services, announced that Commonwealth Orthopaedic Centers in Edgewood, Ky., has selected SRS EHR and Practice Management for its 17 physicians, 10 physician extenders and two physical therapy offices.

The Senate's 114-page budget plan, chaired by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), includes restored Medicare funding for the 2 percent reimbursement cuts enacted by the sequester, as well as a permanent — though non-specific — fix to replace the sustainable growth…

Fresh from a meeting with Republican lawmakers, President Barack Obama said Republican proposals to turn Medicare into a voucher program, cut added Medicaid funding and refuse to close tax loopholes may make reaching a strong consensus on deficit reduction impossible,…