Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) reported that around 1,040 qui tam cases remain unresolved because the federal government has yet to decide whether to get involved, according to a news release from Sen. Grassley.
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A study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that nearly 30 percent of orthopedic surgeons failed to disclose direct financial relationships with medical device makers when instructed to do so.
Debate continued over the decision of the board of trustees of Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Gillette, Wyo., to hire a new orthopedic surgeon, according to a report in the Gillette News-Record.
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that healthcare professionals have a "long way to go in a very short time" in order to implement electronic medical records by 2013, according to a report in the Kansas…
US Spine has launched of the Phantom Plus Interbody Fusion System to complement its posterior fixation systems, according to a release from US Spine.
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Chicago-based NeuStrategy and San Diego-based SpineMark recently completed a nationwide survey of hospital-based spine programs to determine best practices of leading spine programs.
The latest Senate healthcare reform bill will create $121 billion in fees on healthcare companies, which is $29 billion more than originally estimated, according to estimates by the Joint Committee on Taxation reported by Reuters.
Orthopedic Surgeon Frederick George, MD, is retiring from Advanced Orthopedic Centers in Woodbury, N.J., following a 53-year career in the specialty, according to a report in the Gloucester County Times.
Fifty physicians, one from each state, accompanied President Obama in the White House Rose Garden as he kicked off a week of intensified lobbying for healthcare reform legislation in Congress, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.
A new program backed by the AAOS aims to help orthopedic surgeons and other physicians start prescribing electronically and reap Medicare incentive payments for e-prescribing, according to a release from the AAOS.