Here are the 10 leading trends affecting the medical technology industry for 2009, according to a webinar hosted by Aaron Dickson, co-president of the Toronto-based Millennium Research Group, a strategic research and intelligence firm in the medical technology and pharmaceutical market sectors. Read more...  

As unemployment rises and the country's recession continues, many states are seeing increases in Medicaid applications as tax revenues are falling below projections, according to The Associated Press. Read more...  

The Pennsylvania Senate Banking and Insurance Committee has recommended to the state’s insurance department that it deny the proposed merger between insurance providers Independence Blue Cross (IBC) and Highmark, according to a statement from Sen. Don White, chairman of the committee. Read more...  

E. Marlowe Goble, MD, will be featured as one of the country’s top knee surgeons in the Jan. 2009 premier issue of Becker’s Orthopedic & Spine Practice Review.

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Here, Brian Scullion, MD, a principal in the Healthcare Investment Banking Group at William Blair & Company, discusses what's driving the market's downward spiral, what it means for investor-held companies, and which sectors of the healthcare market remain strong. Read more...  

Medicare is struggling to get reimbursement to physicians in California, Nevada and Hawaii, according to the Los Angeles Times, and the effects could be devastating.

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Gemino Healthcare Finance has announced it has provided Intra-Op Monitoring Services (IOM) credit facilities totaling $9.5 million. The financing is being used to fund the acquisition of a portion of IOM led by HealthEdge Investment Partners. Read more...  

There are at least two people that are undisputed leaders in their own fields. These include Peter Drucker in management and Warren Buffet in investing. Currently, with the stock market and the lending market in a period of significant uncertainty, we summarize a few of the investment concepts set forth by Warren Buffet. Aside from the fact that Warren Buffet has made a good deal of money through investing, the investment concepts themselves are relatively simple and are driven by common sense. Here are six of the basic concepts. Read more...  

CMS has published online most of the edits utilized in its Medically Unlikely Edit (MUE) program to improve the accuracy of claims payments for Medicare Part B services. Read more...