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The Health Resources and Services Administration plans to provide $1.9 million in funding for a network of telehealth resource centers, according to a mHIMSS report.

No new consumer-governed Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans will be federally funded in the 26 states still applying for startup capital loans after Congress cut the remaining $1.4 billion from the budget in Tuesday's hurried deal to avert the sequestration…

Robert L. Satcher Jr., MD, an orthopedic surgeon and former NASA astronaut, will be featured at the Medical College of Wisconsin's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration, according to a report from Wauwatosa Now.

Lafayette General Health System has named E. Scott Yerger, MD, medical director for the total joint subspecialty, according to a report from The Advisor.

Texas Spine & Joint will be opening an urgent care facility in Tyler, Texas, that will share facility space with an Azalea Orthopedics office, according to a report in the Tyler Paper.

Jerald Katz, MD, an orthopedic surgeon, has been named chief of orthopedics for Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River, Mass.

Robert Carrera, president and CEO of Pinnacle III, discusses five action steps for ambulatory surgery centers struggling with debt.

Here are 10 statistics on highest and lowest compensating regions of the country for key surgeons in key surgery center specialties, according to the Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2012. All values are averages for surgeon respondents.

Middleton, Conn.-based Community Health Center announced that it is partnering with Integrated Pain Center of Arizona in Tucson for a "telehealth" program that will allow its clinicians to consult with pain management experts in Arizona.

A new study finds that certain regions of the brain can naturally control pain when stimulated by electricity, according to an Everday Health report.