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The House of Representatives has voted to postpone scheduled Medicare payment cuts until March 1 of next year, but it's unlikely that the Senate will pass its version of the bill before the cuts go into effect on Jan. 1,…

The Independent Medicare Advisory Board, a more powerful version of MedPAC envisioned in the health reform bills, would have even greater powers under a new amendment sponsored by three senators, according to a release by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), one…

As the Senate considers adding more Medicare-funded residency positions to meet future needs for physicians, the Association of American Medical Colleges reports that about 1,500 currently funded positions go unfilled, according to a report by Bloomberg.

The fastest way for a practice to increase profitability is to improve its revenue cycle, according to David Wold, CEO of Healthcare Information Services in Park Ridge, Ill. "A practice that seriously examines its revenue cycle and takes steps to…

Fort Worth, Texas-based Wound Management Technologies, a growing provider of specialty medical products, announced that its Resorbable Orthopedics operating subsidiary is moving toward production of its patented orthopedic bone void fillers and expects products to be introduced in the third…

Covidien, a global provider of healthcare products, has announced a definitive agreement to sell its radiopharmacies in the United States to Triad Isotopes, based in Orlando, Fla., according to a Covidien news release.

The Montana Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Great Falls (Mont.) Clinic in a case regarding the legality of the clinic's inclusion of a non-compete clause in physician contracts, according to a report by the Great Falls Tribune.

Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, Calif., will offer orthopedic clinic services five days a week starting in early 2010, according to a report in The Californian.

Construction has begun on Southwest Orthopedic and Spine Hospital, a joint venture between United Surgical Partners International, Catholic Healthcare West and 37 orthopedic specialists, according to a report in the Phoenix Business Journal.

Foundation Surgical Hospital at San Antonio orthopedic surgeon Joel Nilsson's pioneering use of MAKOplasty partial knee resurfacing was featured in a report on San Antonio, Texas' KENS 5 News.