Health Care Reform
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Recon
Obamascare – Stryker to cut 5% of workforce
Stryker, the Kalamazoo-based maker of artificial hips and knees, will cut 5% of its global workforce by the end of…
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Hospitals
Stuart Smalley to Med Device Community “You’re Good Enough, You’re Smart Enough…”
Sen. Franken to Top FDA Official: Seek Medical Device Community’s Expertise Before Changing Approval Process for New Products WASHINGTON, D.C.…
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Extremities
Judge strikes down healthcare reform law
By Tom Brown MIAMI | Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:45pm EST (Reuters) – A federal judge in Florida struck down President Barack…
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Minnesota senators recruit buddies to pressure FDA over 510(k)
As the duly elected representatives of the great state of Minnesota, Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken along with Rep.…
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Financial
Senate deal could mean 1-year Medicare physician payment update
A recent bipartisian agreement in the Senate would use provisions in President Obama’s health care law to extend the current…
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Predictability Competes with Confidence in 510(k) Revamp
FDA’s massive revamp of its battered 510(k) market-entry program for medical devices has emerged as a struggle between two primary…
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Indiana medical device makers say fight isn’t over
It was a rare, stinging setback for medical device and supply companies, including dozens in Indiana that make hospital beds, stents,…
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House issues six-month reprieve on Medicare cuts
The U.S. House of Representatives approves a six-month stay in a 21 percent cut to Medicare reimbursement rates for physicians.…
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Legislation circulating in the Mass. House of Representatives would kill the 2008 gift ban governing industry relationships with physicians.
An omnibus economic development bill wending its way through the Mass. House of Representatives would put paid to the Bay…
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Med device firms eye job cuts due to health-care reform tax
Local companies plan to make cuts — including job reductions — in response to the upcoming 2.3 percent tax on…
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NASS Survey Finds Physicians Ready to Make Major Changes in Medicare Practices
BURR RIDGE, Ill., March 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In a survey published by the North American Spine Society (NASS), as many as 24…
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Obama hails historic healthcare overhaul
WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama sealed a hard-fought victory on Tuesday by signing into law a landmark…
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With Health Care Reform Passing, Has America, as We Know it, Passed Away?
Uh-oh! Are we in for it now or is this just what the doctor ordered? Based on a number of…
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Coverage Denied!
In the same week that Blue Cross / Blue Shield has issued a press release that they are extending Blue…
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A flawed health-reform bill is no victory
I have worked in healthcare related positions for 30 years. I was the CEO of an Anesthesiology group practice for…
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