Doubling back on its push to cut Medicare Advantage payments, CMS announced it would instead increase its rates to Medicare Advantage plans by 3.3 percent next year rather than the 2.3 percent slash it had originally planned.
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Thomas C. Barber, MD, was named chair of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' Council on Advocacy at the AAOS Annual Meeting in Chicago, March 19-23, according to an AAOS News Now report.
A study, published in the Clinical Journal of Pain, found that people suffering from chronic and acute pain experience mental defeat, and targeting this sense of mental defeat can prevent anxiety and depression among the patients, according to a Health…
Joshua Jacobs, MD, an orthopedic surgeon with Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago, was recently inducted as the 2013 President of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) at the organization’s annual meeting last month. Here, Dr. Jacobs talks about…
The Doctors Company, a malpractice insurer, and QuantiaMD, a social learning and collaboration platform for physicians, announced a partnership to give physicians more opportunities to collaborate on patient safety and medical malpractice issues and access information from industry experts.
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Joshua Dines, MD, David Altchek, MD, James Andrews, MD, and Neal ElAttrache, MD, have collaborated to author the book Sports Medicine of Baseball.
Stephen Ashwal, MD, a pediatric neurosurgeon of Loma Linda (Calif.) University Medical Center, and a group of researchers have authored the new sports concussion guidelines that have been accepted by the American Academy of Neurology, according to a report by…
At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference, in Chicago, industry experts will give a presentation titled "Keys to Keeping Surgery Centers Profitable Businesses."
A new bill has been proposed by Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.), which aims to reduce regulatory burdens for Medicare providers and tailor meaningful use requirements to better meet their needs, according to a Healthcare IT News report.
MedPAC released its annual report on Medicare Payment Policy, which includes recommendations for ambulatory surgery centers, according to a Health Finance report.