The Department of Veterans Affairs has begun to limit the types of surgery each of its hospitals can perform in three levels, based on an intensive review of the capabilities of each facility, according to a release from the Department…
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Nearly 80 former members of the medical staff at the now-shuttered St. Vincent's Hospital in New York are asking the hospital for financial assistance with medical malpractice premiums, which can reach up to $40,000 per year, according to a report…
The Minnesota House approved $164 million in cuts for health and human service spending, but Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty said he would veto the bill because it raises taxes and its cuts need to be far greater, according to a…
States have been spared from making more severe Medicaid cuts due to enhanced payments from the federal stimulus bill, but with the extra funding drying up at the end of the year, state Medicaid programs face a tough future, according…
Ongoing construction on 27 new physician-owned hospitals has ended because of a provision in the health reform law banning new hospitals that open after the end of the year, according to Molly Sandvig, executive director of the Physician Hospitals of…
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) are sponsoring federal legislation to require insurance coverage for 48 hours of hospitalization after a mastectomy, lumpectomy or lymph node removal, according to a report by the Albany Times Union.
The Congressional Budget Office increased the projected cost of a permanent physician fee fix by 25 percent, perhaps making it more difficult for Congress to justify a long-term fix rather than passing short-term patches every month or two, according to…
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, a Johnson & Johnson company, announced that the SEDASYS System, the first computer-assisted personalized sedation system, was granted a CE Mark for the European Union for routine colonoscopy and screening of the upper gastrointestinal tract and was granted…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to Baxter Healthcare Corp. on April 30 ordering the company to recall and destroy all of its Colleague Volumetric Infusion Pumps currently in use in the United States, resulting from a…
From 2003-2005, Noridian Administrative Services, which provides administrative services for the Medicare program, made $3 million in Medicare overpayments to hospitals for inpatient services and had failed to recover $1.9 million of that amount, according to an audit from the…