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Septicemia was the single most expensive condition treated in U.S. hospitals in 2009, costing hospitals nearly $15.4 billion, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Half of Texas physicians would consider withdrawing from the Medicare program if Congress enacts deep reimbursement cuts, according to officials from the Texas Medical Association and a Star-Telegram report.
Approximately 40 percent of Medicare spending on common preventive cancer screenings are regarded as medically unnecessary, according to an iWatch News investigation reported in the Huffington Post.
A jury has ordered Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Baxter Healthcare and McKesson to pay at least $20 million for selling the anesthetic propofol in a way that encouraged providers to re-use single-use vials, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has urged the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to reject an SGR plan that would cut reimbursement to specialty physicians by nearly 18 percent over three years, according to an ASA release.
Researchers could not identify the best anesthesia to prevent pulmonary thromboembolism in total hip arthroplasty, according to a study published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission made its final recommendations to Congress regarding the repeal of the sustainable growth rate formula used to calculate the Medicare physician fee schedule, according to an AHA News Now report.
GE Healthcare's new wide-bore 3-Tesla MRI machine, the Discovery MR750w 3.0T, received FDA approval yesterday, according to a news release.
Venture capitalists are slowing down investments to start-up medical device and pharmaceutical companies, according to a study done by the Medical Innovation and Competitiveness Coalition, a partner organization to the National Venture Capital Association, and reported in the Wall Street…