On Monday evening the U.S. Senate will vote on a one-month extension of the Medicare physician fee fix, which expired on April 1 but has been given a 10-day grace period by CMS, according to a report by the Medical…
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Josue P. Gabriel, MD, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in the spine has re-joined the Bonutti Clinic in Effingham, Ill., according to a report by the Journal Gazette.
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Methodist Sugar Land (Texas) Spine Center, which is expected to open in May 2010, has named Rajesh Bindal, MD, as its medical director, according to a report by FortBendNow.com.
Sonoma Valley Hospital in Sonoma, Calif., recently added two new orthopedic surgeons in order to expand its market share in orthopedics, according to a report by the Index-Tribune.
Here are six statistics on the use of electronic medical records by office-based physicians, according to the National Center for Health Statistics' report "Electronic Medical Record Use by Office-based Physicians and Their Practices: United States, 2007."
Orthopedic Surgeon Charles Sorbie, MB, ChB, FRCS(E), a columnist for the American Journal of Orthopaedics, recently died at age 78 from a skiing accident, according to a report by the Kingston Whig-Standard.
The new health reform law raises Medicaid reimbursements to Medicare levels, but only for primary care physicians and just for two years, 2013-2014, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.
Five more states will join the original 13 states in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the health reform law's mandate for Americans to have health insurance coverage, according to a release by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, who originally…
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