Dr. Lloyd B. Minor, provost of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, has been named dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, according to announcements by the two universities. Minor, a physician, has spent nearly two decades at Hopkins, ...

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CHICAGO — Bill Dunphy thought his colonoscopy would be free. His insurance company told him it would be covered 100 percent, with no copayment from him and no charge against his deductible. The nation’s 1-year-old health law requires most insurance ...

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A doctor’s willful failure to disclose to Maryland’s medical board that he had been sued for malpractice entitled the agency to sanction the physician for misconduct “in the practice of medicine,” the state’s top court has unanimously ruled. The Court ...

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Many Marylanders are accustomed to obtaining necessary radiology services, including MRIs and CTs, conveniently at their orthopedic surgeon’s office, although since at least 2006, the Maryland Attorney General and the Maryland Board of Physicians have declared that, to avoid potential ...

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as federal Health Care Reform, contains a myriad of new programs and rules that affect employers, employees, health insurance plans and health care providers. This is the fourth and final installment ...

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