healthcare reform
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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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Medtronic spent over $960,000 lobbying on health care reform and other issues
WASHINGTON (AP) – Medtronic Inc., the world’s largest medical device maker, spent nearly $1 million lobbying Congress in the fourth…
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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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Device Firms May See Tougher Laws
Medical-device companies could benefit from an improving economy and a clearer view of health-system changes this year, but they will…
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Ranking 37th — Measuring the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System
Christopher J.L. Murray, M.D., D.Phil., and Julio Frenk, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. Evidence that other countries perform better than the United…
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Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care,…
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Health care overhaul may create provider shortage, doctors say
Dr. Jack Beller, an orthopedic surgeon who lives in Norman and practices in Chickasha, said that day could come soon…
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Medical Device Lobby Wins Lower Fee in House Bill
WASHINGTON – House lawmakers will propose a $20 billion fee on medical device makers, while Senate leaders have whittled down…
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Medical Device Startups Getting Squeezed by Recession, Lawmakers, Says E&Y Report
Medical Device Startups Getting Squeezed by Recession, Lawmakers, Says E&Y Report Luke Timmerman 10/13/09 People who make a living creating…
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