President Obama is expected to appoint Donald Berwick, MD, a pediatrician, Harvard professor and president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which has been without a permanent leader since Oct.…
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Spine surgery is performed with increasing frequency in ASCs around the country. As a result, ASCs are being forced to reexamine their approach to ensuring efficiency while maintaining appropriate levels of patient safety. The need to increase operating room efficiency…
The House of Representatives passed the health reform bill by a vote of 220-207 in the final vote in a complicated legislative process, according to a report by the New York Times.
San Carlos, Calif.-based Rhausler, Inc., a medical device company specializing in spinal implants and instrumentation, announced that in fiscal year 2009, the company experienced growth of nearly 700 percent for its spinal implant devices, according to a Rhausler news release.
OrthAlign, Inc., a privately held medical device company in Aliso Viejo, Calif., has received 510(k) market clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the latest design of its palm-sized disposable KneeAlign computer-assisted system for total knee arthroplasty, according…
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By a vote of 56 to 43, the Senate passed changes in the health reform bill, which will now be returned to the House of Representatives for a final vote, according to a report by the New York Times.
North Carolina expects to recover tens of millions dollars a year in fraudulent Medicaid claims by hiring a contractor to sift through electronic submissions rather than relying on reviews of paper claims, according to a report by Business Week.
The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that a cap on medical malpractice damages created in 2005 cannot be applied retroactively to cases that occurred before the cap went into effect, according to a report by Business Week.
Rolondae Mitchell-Straughter and Ana Quinteros both pleaded guilty in connection with their roles in an "arthritis kit" Medicare fraud scheme, according to a news release from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.