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.
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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…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has scheduled a public meeting on Feb. 18, 2010, to discuss key challenges related to the premarket notification, or 510(k) process, used to review and clear certain medical devices marketed in the United States,…
It is illegal in a number of states for physicians to pay a percentage of collected fees to billing and collections companies, a practice known as "fee splitting," but the prohibition has been widely ignored and percentage-payment arrangements have flourished,…
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Toe Myint, MD, a physician based in Troy, Mich., was convicted today by a Detroit jury of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in a $4.2 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Plainsboro, N.J.-based Integra LifeSciences has announced that the first clinical application of the Coral Spinal System for minimally invasive spine surgery was performed by Dr. Morteza Farr from Santa Cruz, Calif., the surgeon designer of the new technology, according to…
Here are five statistics on the compensation and employment of surgical technologists nationwide, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor & Statistics' 2008 Occupational Employment Statistics survey.
Amidst the legislative chaos created by the implosion of health reform following this week's Massachusetts election, physician groups are getting anxious that Congress won't perform its usual eleventh-hour fix of the automatic Medicare physician fee cut.
The University of Toledo (Ohio) Medical Center has opened the new UT Mobility Disorders, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Inpatient Center, which will bring all aspects of orthopedic and rehabilitation care together in a single area of the hospital, according to a…