The Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA) has announced its support for a new bill which would strengthen the research and development tax credit and make it permanent.
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The automatic Medicare physicians fee cut, which would go into effect if Congress did not come through with another physician fee fix, would rise to 29.5 percent on Jan. 1, 2012, according to a CMS letter to MedPAC.
The number of patients who required home healthcare after hospital discharge increased by 70 percent from 1997 to 2008, according to an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality report.
New York Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski has introduced a bill that would criminalize the reckless infection of patients, according to a Journal News report.
Just two days after Florida's House leaders moved to eliminate pain clinic regulations proposed by the Florida Board of Medicine, a Senate committee has moved to approve the new rules, stirring even more controversy in the debate over pain management…
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Patients of Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans have filed a class-action lawsuit against the hospital after facility administrators admitted the hospital failed to properly sterilize an endoscope commonly used to perform colonoscopies, according to a WDSU news report.
The ASC Quality Collaboration has released a series of toolkits to assist surgery centers in their infection prevention efforts.
Two months into the healthcare industry's "GLN Sunrise," 566 healthcare organizations report they are amending their business processes and technologies to meet the sunrise requirements, according to a GS1 news release.
A sterile C-arm drape or C-armor could effective reduce the risk of surgical site infections while also improving intraoperative workflow and healthcare cost-savings, according to a study published in Patient Safety in Surgery.
The Illinois Department of Public Health has added several updates to the Hospital Report Card and Consumer Guide to Health Care website, including new information about hospital-acquired infection prevention and control staffing and rates of newborn breastfeeding in hospitals, according…