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Massachusetts' largest business groups, which allied to promote the passage of the 2006 law that expanded health insurance coverage, are now divided over how the state should go about reducing healthcare costs, according to a Boston Globe report.
The healthcare reform law contains a provision requiring all Medicare providers' payment updates, including surgery centers', to be reduced by a productivity adjustment. Last year, the payment update for ASCs was reduced by 1.1 percent, compared to 1 percent for…
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Patients with healthcare-associated infections have a higher risk of being readmitted to a hospital after discharge compared with patients without an infection, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
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AxioMed Spine has received the CE Mark approval for its Freedom Cervical Disc, an elastomeric total spinal disc replacement device.
The University of Maryland at Baltimore will soon begin revamping the way it teaches pain management to future physicians, according to a Baltimore Sun report.
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Surgery centers will become more critical competitors to hospitals in the coming years, as hospitals and health systems move towards population health/global payment models, according to a report from Objective Health.