The following column is written by Andrew D. Galbraith, CFA, MBA, director with HealthCare Appraisers. Accounting Standard Codification 350 - Intangibles, Goodwill and Other Indefinite Lived Assets (ASC 350) governs the accounting treatment for goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets…
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The FDA approved Johnson & Johnson and Bayer's anti-clotting drug Xarelto for the treatment of atrial fibrillation, according to a CBS News report.
Minnesota Rep. Erik Paulsen's movement to repeal the 2.3 percent medical device tax had 218 signatures from members of the U.S. House of Representatives, which is the minimum number of votes a bill need to pass the House, according to…
A new study identified four subgroups of opioid users: use as prescribed, prescribed misusers, medically healthy abusers and illicit users, according to findings published in PLoSONE.
The following article is written by Rhonda Buckholtz, CPC, CPMA, CPC-I, of AAPC. AAPC recently released its yearly salary survey and the results of over 12,000 respondents indicated that even during this time of recession, the salaries of coders…
The FDA released a draft of guidelines for the continuing education of prescribers of long-acting and extended release opioid drugs, according to a Medscape report.
Commercial disease management models did not reduce hospital admissions or emergency room visits or result in cost savings in a study of nearly 250,000 Medicare patients conducted by researchers at RTI International for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Poor men are more likely to die of colorectal cancer than more affluent men, according to findings presented at the NCRI Cancer Conference.
Of the 560 complaints the Illinois Department of Public Health received regarding hospital quality last year, the department declined to investigate 85 percent, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
A Musculoskeletal Infection Society working group led by Javad Parvizi, MD, director of research at the Rothman Institute at Jefferson, has proposed criteria that would make way for a new definition for periprosthetic joint infections, according to a Thomas Jefferson…