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The cardiac medical device market is projected to reach a compound annual growth rate of an estimated 9 percent by 2015 in the U.S., according to a recent report from research and consultancy firm RNCOS.
Based on the Supreme Court's ruling, states now can refuse to expand Medicaid without losing federal funding. But how does that bode for the future of Medicaid?
Last week, the Joint Commission International (JCI) announced a new set of standards for international academic medical centers accredited by the JCI.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is making available up to $275 million to states to help them develop and test improvements to their healthcare systems that would bolster healthcare quality and reduce expenditures.
ICD-10's increased specificity has clear merits. As patients grow older, it's important that the details of their medical histories are stored somewhere other than in memory. But what are the negative implications of ICD-10's greatly expanded codeset?
Medicaid agencies from seven states have signed on to an accountable care organization collaborative effort via the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) that will help states tailor ACOs based on the unique qualities of their health systems.
As widespread drought annihilates crops and sends prices increasingly higher, supply chain managers at healthcare facilities are no doubt eyeing their budgets.
As new rules have been recently published regarding the requirements facing nonprofit hospitals due to the IRS Form 990, Schedule H, many hospitals may realize that they are not always taking the best approach to community benefit through presumptive charity and misclassifying a great number of charity-eligible patients.
Global competition and the impending medical device tax, set to begin Jan. 1, 2013, are creating challenges for the U.S. biomedical device industry, according to a new study by tax advisory firm WTP Advisors.
Recent events may indicate Governors Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, and Rick Perry are resisting health reform to advance their own political fortunes and, in so doing, simultaneously crumbling state healthcare systems and increasing the number of citizens left without insurance coverage.