Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Disc Dynamics is shutting down after it failed to get approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to run a clinical trial to test its minimally invasive technology for the treatment of low back pain, according…
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The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General released its Justification of Estimates for Appropriations Committees report for fiscal year 2011 proposed budget, which included a $40 million increase to continue to support and increase efforts…
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has called upon Anthem Blue Cross of California to justify its recent rate hikes, which are set to go into effect March 1, according to a report by the Los…
Emily Geist, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa., is developing a computer-aided arthroscopy system that would allow surgeons to better navigate instruments in hip arthroscopy procedures, according to a report from Bucknell.
Heartland Spine & Specialty Hospital, a physician-owned hospital comprised of over 80 physicians located in Overland Park, Kan., has named Jesse Saucedo as its new CFO, according to a news release from the hospital.
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Anthem Blue Cross, California's largest for-profit health insurer, is raising premiums for individual insurance policies by 30-39 percent on March 1, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.
In what may be an unprecedented prosecution, Anne Mitchell was scheduled to stand trial Feb. 8 in a Texas court for "misuse of official information," a third-degree felony charge, after reporting a physician last April to the Texas Medical Board…
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries will take a $315 million charge in its fourth quarter in connection with a settlement to resolve a drug-pricing lawsuit brought by Ven-A-Care of the Florida Keys against several of the company's U.S. subsidiaries, according to a…
West Penn Allegheny Health System will develop a small orthopedic surgery hospital in Pittsburgh's suburbs in the next two years, according to a report by the Pittsburgh Business Times.
A Colorado physicians' group has settled allegations by the Federal Trade Commission that the group participated in price-fixing, according to a news release by the FTC.