Endoscopic Technologies to Pay U.S. $1.4 Million to Resolve Allegations of Medicare Fraud

...he company's devices when less invasive alternatives were appropriate, advised hospitals to up-code surgical procedures using the company's devices to inflate Medicare reimbursements, and paid kickbacks to healthcare providers to use its devices. The United States asserted that by engaging in this conduct, ...

Charges Filed Against WellCare Health Plans, Inc.; WellCare Enters Into Deferred Prosecution Agreement, Agrees to Pay $80 Million in Restitution and Forfeiture

...med Harmony Behavioral Health, Inc. (formerly known as WellCare Behavioral Health, Inc.), [that WellCare used] to conceal and falsely and fraudulently inflate [its health] plans' true and actual expenses incurred in providing the required certain medical services to Florida Medicaid and FHKC program recipien...

Cleveland Clinic First To Perform Nephrectomy Completely Transvaginally

...st completely transvaginal nephrectomy on March 13. The procedure involved inserting a small, single channel 5 millimeter port in the belly button to inflate the abdomen with carbon monoxide and thread a small scope, which visually assisted with the placement of the vaginal port. Then, the surgical team mad...

Oh Baby, Interventional Radiology Makes Childbirth Safer

...and right uterine artery (preoperative prophylactic insertion of bilateral internal iliac artery occlusion balloons) before delivery -- to be ready to inflate (just like in angioplasty), if needed at delivery to block excessive blood flow, explained interventional radiologist J. Robert D. Beecroft, M.D., who...

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month: Do You Know What Your Screening Options Are?

... CT COLONOGRAPHY ( also referred to as virtual colonoscopy) A small tube is placed in the rectum and air is pumped into the colon to inflate the bowel. Then a special CT scan is used to image the colon. Recent studies show that it is effective in identifying medium to large polyps, but is ...

Obama Reforms Could Spark 'New Healthcare Economy' If Investors Increase Funding, Says Leading Healthcare Venture Firm

...gnostic technologies that balance the need for breakthrough innovation and sound economics, replacing costly devices and approaches that unnecessarily inflate costs of healthcare delivery. Changes in healthcare service delivery models, including consumer-directed services that empower patients, new i...

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro: McKesson Settles RICO Lawsuit for $350 Million

...acketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), claimed McKesson conspired with drug publishing company First DataBank (FDB) to fraudulently inflate the widely used Average Wholesale Price (AWP) figures, which insurance companies, retailers and others use to calculate the purchase price, payments a...

Hagens Berman Files Class Action Against Bayer Healthcare Over Misleading Marketing Campaign

...per labeling and directions for use," said Berman, "They also illegally marketed the combination drugs with added supplements as a way to artificially inflate the price point of regular over-the-counter aspirin without proper FDA approval." Named plaintiff, Kris Gerhard purchased and paid for Bayer C...

With Angioplasty, More Is Better

... facilities that do more than 83 such procedures a year, researchers report. In angioplasty, a thin tube is inserted into blood vessels and used to inflate a tiny balloon that widens arteries blocked or narrowed with cholesterol-laden plaque to restore blood flow to the heart. A stent is often put in plac...

Angioplasty Not Always Worth the Price

...ween the two. According to the AHA, angioplasty involves inserting a thin tube from a groin artery to the blocked artery in the heart. Doctors then inflate a small balloon at the tip of the tube to widen the vessel, insert a stent and restore blood flow. This secondary analysis involved 2,287 patients ...

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Surgery More Likely Than Angioplasty to Relieve Pain for Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

...ns use a blood vessel harvested from the chest, leg or arm to reroute blood flow around narrowed heart arteries. In angioplasty, a catheter is used to inflate a balloon inside the plaque-narrowed artery. A mesh tube called a stent is usually inserted to keep the artery open. For many patients, the best trea...

Surgeons Find That Laparoscopic Banding Procedure Helps Overweight Adolescents Lose Weight and Improve Health

...band around the top of the stomach. The band itself has a balloon on the inside of it which is connected to a port. We access the port periodically to inflate the balloon to tighten it, and as the band gets tighter, the patient experiences a sense of fullness and then they're not hungry any more, and thus th...

Preterm Infants with Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Incidence Rates of Death when Treated with Surfactant Replacement Therapies

...nths prior to birth and is required for proper respiratory function. By reducing the surface tension within the lungs, surfactant enables the lungs to inflate and normal breathing to begin at birth. However, when infants are born pre-term, surfactant may either be absent or be present only in insufficient qu...

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AMS Ambicor®

Description:...sisting of a pair of cylinders implanted in the corpora cavernosa and a single pump bulb implanted in the scrotum. Patients simply squeeze the pump to inflate and bend the penis to deflate the prosthesis. This closed, fluid-filled system allows for good rigidity and partial flaccidity....
Company:AMS

Inflation Device Set

Description:... Used during the performance of balloon dilation procedures to inflate and deflate the balloon and measure the pressure within the balloon during the procedure. Supplied sterile in peel-open packages. Intended for one-tim...
Company:Cook Urological

KyphX Xpander Inflatable Bone Tamp

Description:... The KyphX Xpander Inflatable Bone Tamp is an orthopedic balloon designed to inflate in cancellous bone while resisting puncture. Like an angioplasty balloon, it can be viewed under X-ray image guidance because it is inflated with radi...
Company:Kyphon, Inc.

Alpha I® with Lock-out™ Valve Reservoir

Features:... The pump on the Alpha I provides patients with a quick and easy way to inflate and deflate their penile implant Release bar spacing facilitates ease of u...rvoir Does not affect the force or number of pumps required by patients to inflate or deflate the device Has been demonstrated in bench testing to prevent au...
Company:Mentor Corporation

SCD Sequential Compression System Intermittent Pneumatic Compression

Features:...esity, advanced age, malignancy, or prior thromboembolism. Pneumatic controller provides intermittent of pulses of compressed air which sequentially inflate the multiple chambers of the sleeve beginning at the ankle and moving up the leg. Results in a wave-like milking action which empties the veins and ...
Company:Kendall Company

NCP-1 External Counterpulsation Device

Features:... Vacuum Pump Technology allows cuffs to fully inflate and deflate during therapy; maximize augmentation while reducing the "slamming" effect of other systems High Quality Treatment Platform assures pat...
Company:Applied Cardiac Systems, Inc

NCP-2 External Counterpulsation Device

Features:...f interaction through detailed trending reports NCP-2 (an enhanced NCP-1 device) features: Vacuum Pump Technology allows cuffs to fully inflate and deflate with every cardiac cycle to increase vascular recoil and minimizing patient slamming Operators can adjust platform levels for patient c...
Company:Applied Cardiac Systems, Inc

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Male reindeer inflate a large air sac in the neck region to emit their hoarse rutting calls

A group of European scientists have determined that a male reindeer's air sac, influencing vocal sound and neck contour, may contribute to his sexual prowess and reproductive success. The results of this research have recently been published in Journal of Anatomy. As in other species with harem-l...

'Shortcuts' of the mind lead to miscalculations of weight and caloric intake, says Penn study

...nts apparently disregard or ignore the provided height information and focus solely on the width of the model. In certain instances, researchers would inflate the provided height information of the models as much as 10 inches, though that did not alter participants' estimates of the models' weights. When ...

Oh baby, interventional radiology makes childbirth safer

...eft and right uterine artery (preoperative prophylactic insertion of bilateral internal iliac artery occlusion balloons) before deliveryto be ready to inflate (just like in angioplasty), if needed at delivery to block excessive blood flow, explained interventional radiologist J. Robert D. Beecroft, M.D., who...

National Jewish Health researchers evaluating treatment to help emphysema sufferers breathe easier

... inserted during a minimally invasive procedure, could relieve the hyperinflation of the lungs, allowing the healthy parts of the lungs to more easily inflate and take in air. "Advanced emphysema patients are often in poor physical condition, struggling with each breath," said Ali Musani, MD, FCCP, princ...

Researchers at National Jewish Health evaluating a treatment

... inserted during a minimally invasive procedure, could relieve the hyperinflation of the lungs, allowing the healthy parts of the lungs to more easily inflate and take in air. "Advanced emphysema patients are often in poor physical condition, struggling with each breath," said Ali Musani, MD, FCCP, princ...

How alligators rock and roll

...ischia are not fused in gators, so the ischiopubis muscles allow gators to puff out their bellies, helping pull the liver toward the tail so the lungs inflate when the animal inhales. The rectus abdominis muscles, which Uriona describes as the gator equivalent of six packs, abs or abdominal muscles. ...

Stanford's nanowire battery holds 10 times the charge of existing ones

...ogy. The lithium is stored in a forest of tiny silicon nanowires, each with a diameter one-thousandth the thickness of a sheet of paper. The nanowires inflate four times their normal size as they soak up lithium. But, unlike other silicon shapes, they do not fracture. Research on silicon in batteries bega...

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The year of working together (really!)

... of Collaboration. I know it sounds a little anti-climatic. You were hoping for something a bit more sexy, something brand new, something we could inflate for dramatic capital returns. Collaboration may not sound very sexy, but that's probably because you're thinking about collaboration in its old, exhau...

High tech in the U.K. Do the Brits forgo Web 2.0?

...bit about the customer pain, and half a life story of the company to be sure. You won't hear buzzwords or shorthand used to puff up market position or inflate valuations. Just dull facts of products meeting real user needs. While this takes some patience and perseverance to get to the crux of the British ...

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Automatic Cuff Inflation Pump from IITC Life Science

Description:...ycles with extremely linear deflation rates. A manual air release is for immediate pressure drop. A built-in recycle timer can be set to automatically inflate the system in increments of 1 to 999 seconds....
Company:IITC Life Science