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Congressional Democrats and the Obama administration are waging a "war" on specialists through health reform legislation and Medicare policy, according to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal.
A poll of members of the Medical Group Management Association gave Medicare Part B the highest marks of all major nationwide payors in key performance indicators, according to a release from MGMA.
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A new Web site from Virginia Health Information will allow patients to see the prices for procedures at various locations of service, including ASCs and hospitals, according to a report in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The Senate Finance Committee voted 14-9, with one republican vote from Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), to approve the committee's healthcare reform bill, according to a report by AHANews.
Physicians Outpatient Surgery Center in Belpre, Ohio, now offers retinal surgery, allowing residents of the Mid-Ohio Valley who need this procedure to receive care locally rather than traveling to major cities, according to a report in the News and Sentinel.
A study by researchers at Harvard Medical School and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that patients who underwent minimally invasive surgery for prostate cancer had a higher rate of incontinence or impotence a year and…
Chris Zorn, vice president at Spine Surgical Innovation, discusses recent trends in spine surgery toward outpatient care and its relevance to recent healthcare reform efforts.