Payment
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Financial
Medtronic closes $16.8B refinancing
By Fink Densford Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) said Tuesday it closed its most recent round refinancing, spending over $16.8 billion. The exchange offers…
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Financial
AccentCare Health Management and Texas Orthopedics Collaborate To Reduce Cost and Improve Quality of Replacement Surgeries
Texas Orthopedics, Sports and Rehabilitation Associates’ patients in Central Texas will now be able to take advantage of a value-based…
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Financial
Medicare bundled payment firm secures $50 million investment
By Bob Herman Remedy Partners, a company that helps hospitals and physicians with bundled payment programs, has raised $50 million from Bain…
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Extremities
U.S. proposes bundling some Medicare knee, hip replacement payments
The U.S. agency that runs federally funded health insurance programs has proposed restructuring payments for hip and knee replacement surgeries,…
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Financial
St. Jude Medical to acquire Spinal Modulation: 5 key observations
By Anuja Vaidya St. Jude Medical intends to acquire Spinal Modulation. Here are five important observations: 1. Spinal Modulation is…
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Financial
Payment reform puts medical-device industry on the defensive
By Sabriya Rice Posted: October 7, 2014 – 7:45 am ET Tags: Access, Accountable Care Organizations, Costs,Insurers, Medical Devices, Medical…
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Financial
The payment bigotry against primary care doctors
RICHARD YOUNG, MD | POLICY | JUNE 23, 2014 I’ve listened over the years to well-meaning people say that the general public doesn’t care…
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Osiris Therapeutics receives $15 million cash payment from Mesoblast for Prochymal
Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSIR), the leading stem cell company focused on developing and marketing products to treat conditions in wound care, orthopedic…
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Spine
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: CMS Proposed Rule Overview
In preparation for todays Senate Aging Committee hearing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released their proposed rule for the physician payment sunshine…
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CMS final rule announces a 21.2% Medicare physician payment cut for 2010
By Gina BrockenbroughORTHOPEDICS TODAY 2009; 29:18 A final ruling by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services calls for a…
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