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.
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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.
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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.
Here are seven statistics about the orthopedics market from independent market analyst Datamonitor.
Alexander A. Hannenberg, MD, who will become president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists during its annual meeting in October, discusses 10 facts that every surgeon or hospital executive should know about anesthesiologists.