A new physicians group that opposes a government-run healthcare plan has issued results of a nationwide poll it conducted, finding that 70 percent of specialty doctors oppose current healthcare reform proposals, according to a release from the group, the American…
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President Obama inaccurately portrayed reimbursements for foot surgery and surgeons' role in prevention in an Aug. 11 speech on health reform delivered in Portsmouth, N.H., according to an AAOS release.
The U.S. government announced nearly $1.2 billion in grants to help hospitals and other healthcare providers implement electronic health records, according to a Reuters report.
Physicians commenting online about the current health reform legislation say it does not address several key causes of healthcare inflation, such as malpractice pay-outs, billing procedures and emphasis on preventive medicine, according to Sermo, a Web site exclusively for physicians…
The ASC Association has announced the formation of a new entity called the ASC Advocacy Committee, which will unite the ASC Association and the ASC Coalition to focus becoming the best possible representation for ASCs in advocacy, according to a…
The Orthopaedic Joint Reconstruction Program at 250-bed Gottlieb Memorial Hospital in Melrose Park, Ill., achieved an outstanding score in the 99th percentile range in the first quarter of 2009 on CMS' patient satisfaction survey, the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare…
New regulations from the Department of Health and Human Services require healthcare providers, health plans and other entities covered under HIPAA to notify individual when their healthcare information has been breached, according to an HHS news release.
The America's Health Insurance Plans has commissioned a report which, not surprisingly, claims some out-of-network physicians are charging patients fees as high as 1,000 percent of Medicare reimbursements for the same service in the same geographic area.
A new report by A.M. Best puts the survival of many small and midsize not-for-profit hospitals in question, due to lack of economies of scale, poor payor mix, higher overhead costs, fewer high-margin specialty service lines and an overall lower…
US Spine has been awarded a patent for its Facet Gun, the first in a series of applications for the Facet Fixation System, which is already on the market, according to a release from US Spine, based in Boca Raton,…