The Montana Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Great Falls (Mont.) Clinic in a case regarding the legality of the clinic's inclusion of a non-compete clause in physician contracts, according to a report by the Great Falls Tribune.
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Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, Calif., will offer orthopedic clinic services five days a week starting in early 2010, according to a report in The Californian.
Construction has begun on Southwest Orthopedic and Spine Hospital, a joint venture between United Surgical Partners International, Catholic Healthcare West and 37 orthopedic specialists, according to a report in the Phoenix Business Journal.
Foundation Surgical Hospital at San Antonio orthopedic surgeon Joel Nilsson's pioneering use of MAKOplasty partial knee resurfacing was featured in a report on San Antonio, Texas' KENS 5 News.
The new $75 million Orthopedic Building, which just opened at Rush University Medical Center, is a joint venture between the medical center and Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush, a 38-physician orthopedic group. The 220,000-square-foot building is the largest facility for orthopedics…
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, N.J., has agreed to pay $8 million to settle allegations of Medicare fraud, according to a report in the Courier-Post.
B. Bennie Perkins of Plymouth, Minn., the owner of a home healthcare company pleaded guilty in federal court to obtaining $74,000 from Medicaid fraudulently by causing submission of reimbursement claims for personal care assistant services that, in truth, were not…
Spinal Restoration, based in Austin, Texas, has received a Special Protocol Assessment concurrence letter from the U.S Food and Drug Administration for the design of its Phase 3 study of the Biostat System for the treatment of chronic discogenic low…
A representative of the U.S. Department of Justice said he department will work with hospitals and other providers to create models of clinical integration that do not violate antitrust laws, according to a report by AHA News Now.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has indicated that he will drop a proposal in the health reform bill to allow people ages 55-64 to buy into the Medicare program, according to a report by the Hill.