The medical device market will present greater opportunity and greater challenges for device companies, as it grows by 19.9 percent from 2009-2013, according to a Plastics Today report.
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Average salaries of nurse practitioners and physician assistants rose from 2009-2010, according to the National Salary Survey of Nurse Practitioners and the National Salary Survey of Physician Assistants, both conducted by ADVANCE.
Actavis Mid-Atlantic, a pharmaceutical company based in Morristown, N.J., must pay the state of Texas $170 million after a jury found the company guilty of falsely reporting its drug prices to the state Medicaid program, according to a news release…
Arun Sharma, MD, a rheumatologist from Kemah, Texas, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $43 million in cash and property after a guilty plea to committing healthcare fraud, according to a Houston…
Three bills related to eliminating healthcare reform tax on medical device manufacturers have already been introduced in Congress, and two more are expected to be introduced shortly, according to a report from The Hill.
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The Greensboro (N.C.) Specialty Surgical Center will now offer outpatient spine and pain surgeries through a Moses Cone Health System, Carolina Neurosurgery and Vanguard Brain and Spine partnership, according to a report from The Business Journal.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a proposed rule that would require Medicare providers and suppliers to notify Medicare beneficiaries of their right to contact their state's Medicare quality improvement organization if they have concerns about the…
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois and the Illinois Hospital Association are partnering on a new initiative to significantly reduce readmission rates at Illinois hospitals by 2014, according to a release by the hospital association.
Pointing to a federal judge's decision to strike down the healthcare reform law, Physician Hospitals of America and Texas Spine and Joint Hospital have filed a motion to invalidate the ban on physician-owned hospitals, according to a PHA release.
Tip: Shaun Sweeney, vice president of sales and marketing for Cygnus Medical, which specializes in products and services for the endoscopy suite, operating room and sterile processing department, says another pitfall GI/endoscopy-driven ASCs run into is brushing scopes with a…