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Indianapolis-based TriMedx and Warsaw, Ind.-based Biomet lent both volunteers and medical equipment to assist the relief effort after the devastating earthquake in Haiti earlier this year, according to a report in Inside Indiana Business.
Once again, on Thursday, physicians will face a huge cut in Medicare reimbursements resulting from Congress' failure to extend a short-term patch to delay implementing the sustainable growth rate formula.
Researchers from the Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment in Turin, Italy, found that when performed on properly selected patients, vertebroplasty, a minimally invasive treatment performed in individuals with painful osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures that fail to respond to conventional…
Trinity Orthopedic Associates in Minot, N.D., is expanding its joint replacement program to offer wrist and elbow replacement, according to a report by the Minot Daily News.
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Allen Medical Systems, a subsidiary of Hill-Rom Holdings, has launched Allen Pinkfin Elite Stirrups to benefit breast cancer research, in partnership with Susan G. Koman for the Cure, according to an Allen news release
A 65 percent federal subsidy to enhance COBRA health insurance premiums for the newly unemployed will end on April 1 because the Senate failed to pass a bill extending it before Congress went into a two-week recess, according to Kaiser…
The Physician Sunshine Payment Act, part of the new health reform law, is expected to discourage payments to physicians from medical device and pharmaceutical companies, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal Health Blog.
Heartland Spine & Specialty Hospital in Overland Park, Kan., has changed its name to Heartland Surgical Specialty Hospital in order to more accurately reflect the variety of services offered at the physician-owned hospital, according to a release by the hospital.
A survey of nearly 14,000 surgeons and anesthesiologists, members of the nation's Surgical Coalition, showed that less than one-third of physician currently participating in Medicare would be able to continue under the 21.2 percent fee cut scheduled to go into…