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The Ambulatory Surgery Center Advocacy Committee is applauding the removal of patient co-payments for screening colonoscopies in the health reform bill, according to a release from ASCAC.
Indianapolis-based TriMedx and Warsaw, Ind.-based Biomet lent both volunteers and medical equipment to assist the relief effort after the devastating earthquake in Haiti earlier this year, according to a report in Inside Indiana Business.
On March 23, Somnia Anesthesia Services hosted a Webinar titled, "Improving Operating Room and Anesthesia Efficiency in Your Hospital," which highlighted how anesthesia efficiency can affect OR efficiencies and a hospital's revenues.
Once again, on Thursday, physicians will face a huge cut in Medicare reimbursements resulting from Congress' failure to extend a short-term patch to delay implementing the sustainable growth rate formula.
Patients with recurrent colon cancer in their liver experienced prolonged survival by nearly three years when liver metastases were treated using radiofrequency ablation, a minimally invasive treatment that applies heat directly in the tumor causing cancer cell death with minimal…
Construction is expected to begin in May for a new $45 million surgery and oncology center to complement services at Santa Monica (Calif.)-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital, according to a report in the Santa Monica Mirror.
B. Braun Medical has received two 2010 GHX Best in Class Awards for achieving the highest year-over-year market share growth for distributed products in the Solutions/Nutritionals and Kits, Packs and Trays product categories, according to a B. Braun news release.
1. More paying patients. Adding 32 million paying patients will save hospitals with high volumes of uninsured, such as Grady Health System in Atlanta. Health reform "should take some of the operational pressure and the near-death experience Grady faced in…
Allen Medical Systems, a subsidiary of Hill-Rom Holdings, has launched Allen Pinkfin Elite Stirrups to benefit breast cancer research, in partnership with Susan G. Koman for the Cure, according to an Allen news release