Dr. Wes

As part of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act ("Sunshine Act"), some medical device companies started posting physician payments o...

Thanks to NPR, I was directed to an op-ed that appeared in the New York Times in October 2012 entitled " In Cancer Care, Cost Matters...

From this morning's Wall Street Journal : Medtronic says federal rules prohibit giving Ms. Hubbard's data to anyone but her docto...

Doctors wanting to determine a patient's atrial fibrillation burden have a myriad of technologies at their disposal: 24-hour Holter moni...

It's the new rage: eliminating waste in health care: Nine medical specialty societies are joining with the American Board of Internal M...

Dear Ms. Manners: I am a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and I just learned that the American College of Cardiology Foundatio...

With the explosion of medical devices to treat various medical ailments in medicine, we have seen significant improvements in quality and qu...

Tomorrow professional medical societies will be looking long and hard at how they disclose industry ties in response to an article published...

Stephen L Snyder, attorney for Dr. Mark Midei, comments on the US Senate's Finance Committee's staff report (4.4 MB pdf file) of s...

"... I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." - Blanche DuBois in Tennessee William's play, A Streetcar Named Des...

It's being done : An EKG is one tool used to diagnose various cardiovascular conditions, including a heart attack or heart failure. With...

With the advent of trendy-looking insulin pumps and event recorders that look like hip MP-3 players or cell phones, there might be a downs...

... or is it really just an " assessment ?" The legislation does not work like a sales or excise tax. Rather, it follows the model...

... Kim has a nice run-down on what I've been up to over at Emergiblog . Yesterday's conference on medical blogging and the impact...

Here's a dumb thought: If you want to save costs on medical devices to the federal government, require a tax fee concessions of $4 bi...

It was a routine pacemaker implant yesterday. No big deal, really. But there's always one point of a surgical procedure that grabs the d...

... so too, might the medical devices : Roughly 2 million people use home oxygen machines, mostly "concentrators" that make oxygen...

The left-leaning National Physicians Alliance blog has decided to take on the American College of Cardiology. Now as a Fellow in the Americ...

There has been a remarkable amount of excitement about closing patent foramen ovales (PFO's) or larger atrial septal defects (ASDs) to c...

Mandates don't work if you can't enforce them: The Food and Drug Administration can't keep up with requirements to inspect dome...