Supply Chain
It's been a long time coming, but late Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the final rule for the Physician Payments Sunshine Act.
Hospitals and healthcare organizations should brace for a 3 to 4 percent food price increase projected by both the USDA and the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Materials management is no longer simply a product purchasing function - it has gone beyond procurement and into analyzing how products are being used and just as importantly, where the products are at any given time.
Medical device manufacturers are shifting the cost of the 2.3 percent device tax, which went into effect on Jan. 1 as part of the Affordable Care Act, to hospitals and other healthcare providers, the Healthcare Supply Chain Association alleged on Friday.
The global healthcare contract research outsourcing market is increasing at a compounded annual growth rate of 14.7 percent and is expected to be valued at $65.03 billion by 2018, according to a new report from market research firm Transparency Market Research.
A 2.3 percent medical device tax went into effect on Jan. 1 as part of the Affordable Care Act, despite claims from medical device companies that the tax will significantly hurt their businesses.
The U.S. market for clot management devices is on the rise and is expected to grow at an annual rate of 4.1 percent through 2017, said a new report from Millennium Research Group.
The market for point-of-care (POC) testing products -- such as pregnancy tests and glucose monitoring devices -- is currently growing at a rate of 6 percent per year, said a new report from healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.
President Barack Obama rejected the idea of delaying the implementation of a 2.3 percent medical device tax slated to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2013 as part of the Affordable Care Act. The president said medical device companies would make up for the lost revenue because the ACA will bring more healthcare consumers into the marketplace.
In a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last week, 18 Democratic senators and senators-elect requested a delay in the medical device tax, a 2.3 percent tax that is slated to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2013 as part of the Affordable Care Act.