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CMS will launch its eHealth initiative at the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in New Orleans, March 3-7, 2013.

Richard Edelson, MD, performed knee surgery on Portland Timbers midfielder Sal Zizzo, according to a Sports Illustrated report.

William Lang, MD, and Steven Krems, MD, announced they are offering a new hybrid concierge medical practice through Concierge Choice Physicians.

Houston-based Spine Pain Management, a medical service, device and healthcare solutions company, announced that a New Braunfels-based Central Texas Pain Center location has become its affiliate in San Antonio.

When President Barack Obama signed sequestration into law this past weekend, roughly $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts went into effect for the rest of the federal government's 2013 fiscal year. But was it the best deal for hospitals and…

CMS has extended (pdf) through October 2013 the Medicare-Dependent Hospital Program for rural hospitals, as well as payment increases to low-volume hospitals prescribed by the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012.

The sports medicine device market is one of the fastest growing fields in healthcare, largely because of the growing number of youth-related sports activities and injuries, according to a study by Transparency Market Research.

UC San Diego Health System has named Christopher Wahl, MD, chief of sports medicine.

Jim Walter, MD, team physician for FC Dallas Major League Soccer team, recently performed knee surgery on midfielder Peter Luccin, according to a Yahoo Sports report.

Much buzz has been generated for months about the crisis of across-the-board spending cuts that took effect Friday after Congress failed to pass an equivalent $1.2 trillion savings package over the next 10 years. Few federal programs were spared from…