Citing federal statistics, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality says uninsured adults were more likely in 2007 to have problems accessing a physician specialist than people who had insurance coverage, according to a report by AHA News Now.
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The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association has expanded its Blue Distinction designation program to include Blue Distinction Centers for Spine Surgery and Blue Distinction Centers for Knee and Hip Replacement, according to a BCBSA news release.
New York Governor David Paterson is hoping to add tighter restrictions on medical device and pharmaceutical industry sales representatives' relationships with physicians to his proposed 2010-2011 budget, according to a report in the Massachusetts Medical Devices Journal.
Lisset Lombera and Yamilet Cardenas, both of Miami-Dade County, were sentenced to prison and supervised release after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, according to a Department of Justice news release.
Implants for procedures can either make or break a hospital's profits when it comes to orthopedic surgery. Good contracts for these items consist of more than just a low price; other factors such as quality and payor issues are also…
Marie E. Sinioris is president and CEO of the National Center for Healthcare Leadership.
WellSpan plans to open a $73 million inpatient orthopedic surgery facility in York, Pa., according to a report by the York Dispatch.
Lobbying disclosure reports show that that the health insurance lobby increased spending by 24 percent in 2009, as Congress debated health reform legislation, according to The Hill.
The Hill, which covers Washington politics, has compiled a list of 10 strategic and tactical decisions by Democrats that caused their health reform legislation to stall, making it less likely to pass:
Anesthesiologists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., have developed a simple, but highly effective patient surveillance system that has decreased the number of rescue calls and ICU transfers in postsurgical patients, according to a news release from the American…