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The number of Medicare Part B-reimbursed ambulance transports increased nearly 70 percent between 2002 and 2011, according to a report from the Office of the Inspector General. During that same period, the number of fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries who received transport…

Piedmont, Calif.-based Alta Bates Medical Group, a division of Brown & Toland Physicians in San Francisco, has joined Brown & Toland's collaborative accountable care initiative with Cigna, adding 327 physicians to the accountable care organization-like agreement.

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Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi plans to reinstate its contracts with four of the 10 state hospitals owned by Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates, according to a report from The Clarion-Ledger.

Personalized medicine is perceived by many to be the future of medicine. Discoveries of the human genome paired with big data analysis of what treatments are most effective for which biomarkers hold great potential to significantly change how the medical…

Temecula (Calif.) Valley Hospital has officially opened to patients, according to a report from the Press-Enterprise. Temecula Valley was finished early and under budget in August, though its opening remained according to the original construction schedule. The hospital opened its…

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