A program that will require payment preapproval from CMS for cardiac and orthopedic procedures is currently limited to Florida, according to a Bloomberg report.
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The following hospital executive moves occurred within the past week, beginning with the most recent.
James Gruft, MD, founder of From Pain to Wellness, a pain center in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., applauds the Institute of Medicine's recently released blueprint for treating chronic pain, according to a practice news release.
Nearly all healthcare organizations view some information via a mobile device, yet more than half do not have policies regarding mobile technology use, according to a report by mHIMSS, part of the Health Information and Management Systems Society.
Here are 15 hospitals expanding orthopedic and services.
Mark T. Reis, MD, recently joined San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital in Banning, Calif., and Beaver Medical Group, according to a report from the Record Gazette.
Patients who have received a higher education have better improvement with nonoperative treatment than patients who have not completed higher education, according to a report published in Spine.
Frank Cordasco, MD, a surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery, recently performed a procedure to repair St. Louis Rams left tackle Roger Saffold's torn pectoral muscle, according to a Hospital for Special Surgery news release.
BioLineRx's BL-1021 drug, an orally available small molecule for neuropathic pain, was safe and well tolerated in a double-blinded, placebo-controlled study, according to a news release.
Despite the uncertainty associated with today's healthcare system, John Caruso, MD, a neurosurgeon with Parkway Neuroscience & Spine Institute in Hagerstown, Md., believes that now is a great time to be practicing medicine. His optimistic outlook focuses on the potential…