Enacting legislation that would force federal officials to purchase health insurance through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchanges would add $978 million to the deficit during the next decade, according to a Congressional Budget Office report.
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Of those potentially eligible for coverage under the reform law, 17 percent of Americans have visited the health insurance exchanges online, over the phone, in person or via mail, according to a survey conducted by The Commonwealth Fund.
In recent years medicine has begun to reorganize from being predominantly solo practitioners and small groups to large, multispecialty groups, and this may not be a bad thing, according to a report on KevinMD.
Dexamethasone following spinal fusion surgery helped patients swallow better and spend less time in the hospital, according to a Medscape report.
FzioMed will have an independent review of its Oxiplex Gel premarket approval application, as per approval from the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Ehud Mendel, MD, is a neurosurgeon at Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus and director of OSU's spine program. He is also the clinical co-director of the OSU Spinal Biodynamics and Ergonomics Laboratory and a professor of neurological surgery…
In a KevinMD blog post, Rosemarie Nelson, principal at MGMA Health Care Consulting Group, discusses the ICD-10 transition plan that medical practices should begin to put in place and lays out some practical steps that can be included in the…
In a Physicians Practice article, David Doyle, CEO of CRT Medical Systems, lays out five ways to increase patient collections at your medical practice.
The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee announced that a bipartisan, bicameral discussion draft outline to permanently fix the broken Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate formula has been released.
After CMS announced 106 new Medicare accountable care organizations in January, only 35 new commercial ACOs have been announced, according to a Health Affairs blog written by David Muhlestein from Leavitt Partners.