The California Podiatric Medical Association (CPMA) along with a coalition of health care organizations, community and business groups, local governments and unions is in the midst of a critical battle over a ballot measure that would have what many are calling a catastrophic impact on the state’s health care system – impacting both providers and…

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Cut prices for low-risk hospital outpatient surgeries: HHS report Medicare should pay hospitals less for low-risk outpatient surgeries, the program’s fiscal watchdog suggests in a report published this morning. Bringing prices in line with those charged at cheaper ambulatory surgical centers could save the government as much as $15 billion over six years and save Medicare patients…