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Blue Cross Blue Shield has notified physicians and other healthcare providers that data, including Social Security numbers, may have been compromised when a laptop containing the information was stolen in August from an employee at BCBS Association's headquarters in Chicago,…

The FDA has approved additional indications for EquivaBone, a hard-setting osteoinductive osteoinductive bone graft substitute from Etex Corp., according to a release from Etex.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is proposing a 0.5 percent increase in Medicare reimbursements for physicians in 2011 and 2012, rather than a one-year fix in reimbursements proposed by Sen. Max Baucus in his health reform bill, according to a…

A new study finds that patients needing a second anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction were likely to be women, younger or those using less experienced surgeons, according to a release by the Hospital for Special Surgery.

Wound Management Technologies has completed its acquisition of Resorbable Orthopedics, maker of resorbable bone wax and a delivery system for orthopedic bone void fillers, according to a release from the company.

Researchers at Loyola University Health System have found that high-risk orthopedic surgery patients had significantly shorter hospital stays when seen by hospitalists trained in managing complications from surgery, according to a release by Loyola University Health System.

R. Blake Curd, MD, an orthopedic surgeon who is co-owner of the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Surgical Hospital, has announced his Republican candidacy for South Dakota's only U.S. House seat, according to a release from Dr. Curd.

Physicians are attempting to remove a provision in the Senate Finance Reform Committee's healthcare reform bill that would penalize physicians who administer the most tests and treatments to their patients, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released an update for Change Request 6528 for suppliers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies that maintain inventory at physicians' offices and the physicians who maintain the inventory, according to an…

A new study from the Medical Group Management Association found that total medical revenue for multi-specialty group practices dropped 1.9 percent in 2008, the first decrease in several years, according to an MGMA news release.