Features News Briefs On-Call Coverage: Should Hospitals Pay Orthopedic Physicians Written by Mark Taylor An obscure 1986 law continues to vex hospitals as they struggle to provide the on-call coverage for emergency rooms the law requires and elicit the support…
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Fifty-seven anesthesiologists have filed a lawsuit against Seven Hills Surgery Center in Henderson, Nev., alleging that the surgery center violated their contracts by revoking their privileges when it hired Valley Anesthesiology Consultants to provide anesthesiology services for the center, according…
Biomet, a manufacturer of orthopedic devices, announced overall sales growth of 2 percent in its most recent fiscal quarter, suggesting continued, but decreased, growth for the orthopedic device industry, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
The healthcare sector added 13,500 jobs in Mar. 2009, according to a report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A California federal appeals court has halted a 5 percent cut in Medi-Cal rates for hospitals, ruling that the cuts were made without examining their effect on quality of care, the economy or access to health services, according to a…
A new study from the University of Massachusetts Medical School found that the proportion that employers, consumers and the state government were paying on healthcare coverage was the same in 2007 as they were a year before a new statewide…
Orthopedics is usually a breadwinner for surgery centers, but the specialty is facing a number of challenges that can reduce its profitability.
The increasing likelihood for mergers among medical insurers concerns healthcare providers who worry that the plans will have too much clout over medical care, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
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