Breaking Healthcare News May 9, 2012


Today’s Healthcare Headlines:

  • North Suburban opens free-standing ER HealthOne’s North Suburban Medical Center, a 128-bed hospital in Thornton, Colo., has opened a free-standing, 24-hour emergency room. The 10,000-square-foot facility is located roughly seven miles from North Suburban and will offer the same services…
  • Former exec receives three-year sentence David Rosen, a former health system CEO who was convicted in September for fraud and conspiracy to commit bribery, was sentenced to three years in prison by a U.S. District Court judge.
  • Renowned MetroHealth cardiologist dies Dr. David Rosenbaum, chief of the division of cardiology and director of the Heart & Vascular Center for the MetroHealth System in Cleveland, died May 5 in Cleveland. He was 54.
  • CMS listens to AMA panel 87.4% of time Those who say the CMS follows the suggestions of the American Medical Association’s Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (commonly known as “the RUC”) 90% of
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