Currently, Medicare physician pay cuts of 27.4 percent will go into effect Jan. 1, 2012, unless Congress intervenes, and roughly 9 percent of medical groups would cease treating Medicare patients if the cuts went through, according to an American Medical…
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Surgery center development in Fort Meyers, Fla., may signal a national trend, as the number of outpatient surgeries increases to 57 million nationwide in 2011, according to an NBC-2 report.
Thomas A. Warrington, Jr., AVA, senior manager, and Jennifer Brunkow, ASA, CPA/ABV/CFF, senior analyst with VMG Health, point to several implications — intended and unintended — in the CMS bundled payment pilot program.
Here is a list of 11 spine surgeons and specialists who are currently leading professional societies.
Ultrasound technology is an emerging technology for pain management and can be used in both diagnostic and procedural applications. Michael Gofeld, MD, University of Washington assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and the Department of Neurological…
Researchers at King's College London have discovered that a protein called TRPA1, found on the surface of nerve cells, is the molecule needed for common analgesic paracetamol to relieve pain, according to a news release.
IDC Health Insights estimates electronic medical record/electronic health record adoption among midsize and large ambulatory practices will increase from less than 25 percent in 2009 to more than 80 percent by 2016, according to a company news release.
Here are 20 orthopedic practices that have partnered with hospitals, merged together or expanded over the past several months.
An assessment of 270 studies by the National Health Service in the U.K. found opioids are not effective for treating sciatica, even though they are widely used, according to a Pulse report.
The American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery approved the allowance of continuing medical education credits through Orthopaedic In-Training Exam to count toward maintenance of certification's scored and recorded self-assessment requirements, according to an AAOS Now report.