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CHICAGO — Becker's ASC Review and Becker's Hospital Review have announced the "100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare." The 2010 list was developed through nominations, recommendations and research, and the organizations were selected for their demonstrated excellence in creating…

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have fashioned a new type of tissue and bone scaffolding polymer that addresses several problems with conventional synthetic bone grafts, according to a release from the university.

N.Y. Spine Medicine-Schottenstein Pain and Neuro has opened a new medical facility in midtown Manhattan, according to a release from the practice.

Herb Schultz has been named director for HHS Region IX, which oversees California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam and other U.S. possessions in the Pacific, according to a report by the San Francisco Business Times.

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the rate and costs of spinal surgery in Medicare patients has found the number of Medicare enrollees receiving complex spinal fusion increased 15-fold, from less than 1 percent…

ASCs continuously search for new service lines to generate additional revenue for their centers. Orthopedic and pain management ASCs often look to spine surgery to provide that new revenue, but they often overlook a procedure they can add with no…

UnitedHealth Group, Healthspring, Coventry Health Care and Humana are among the insurers that will receive the same payment rates for 2011 as they did this year for administering Medicare Advantage plans, according to a report in Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

Jatin Patel, owner of Rx Shop, Rajnish Mehta, Satender Singh, Naresh Jain and Sachin Amin have been arrested and charged with fabricating prescriptions and submitting the claims to Medicaid, Medicare and Tricare, according to a report in The Tampa Tribune.

The American Medical Association has been in existence for 162 years now, making it the oldest trade association in the nation, but this organization doesn't have a clue anymore as to what a trade association is about.

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