The dance between House Republicans and the Senate to complete a budget came to an unfruitful end last night, resulting in the first shutdown of the federal government in the past 17 years.
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Hospital technology, not uninsured patients, has been a driving cause of the sharp increase in healthcare costs in Texas, according to a study in Healthcare Management, Practice and Innovation.
National Medicaid enrollment and spending growth are expected to rise in fiscal year 2014, driven by improving economic conditions and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report.
Newport Beach, Calif.-based Newport Hospital Corporation has secured $65M of $70M needed to finance a new hospital on Kaanapali, Maui in Hawaii from an unidentified real estate investment trust, according to a report from the Pacific Business News.
A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will affect the uninsured population state-by-state.
Here are seven key notes on major spine and orthopedic device companies.
Several factors have come together in the past few months to create a perfect storm of disincentives to spine surgeon inventors.
Physicians cannot ignore costs when it comes to patient treatments, and they can start by making the cost of care a less taboo subject to broach, according to a KevinMD.com report.
A recent study in The American Journal of Managed Care found more than half of physicians write their prescriptions electronically, eight times as many who wrote e-prescriptions as of 2008.
Biomet reported its net income at $31.1 million for the first quarter of 2014, despite spine sales coming in 6.6 percent lower than the same period last year.