A Nevada state probe has been launched to determine whether cardiologists of University Medical Center in Las Vegas improperly accepted consulting fees from Biotronik, a pacemaker manufacturer, according to a Las Vegas Sun report. The New York Times recently published…
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Here are the top 10 challenges facing healthcare workers, according to Chicago-based Career Builder's Turnoverx: How to Cure the Retention Problems Ailing Your Health Care Organization. The top 10 challenges are based on the top responses to the question, "What…
Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) have reintroduced a bill to abolish the Independent Payment Advisory Board, according to a release by Sen. Hatch.
The American Hospital Association has sent a letter to CMS urging it to correct errors in the Inpatient Prospective Payment System regarding its rural floor budget-neutrality adjustment, according to an AHA New Now news release.
The Washington state House of Representatives has released its two-year budget, which includes $250 million in Medicaid reimbursement cuts to hospitals in the state as well as an estimated $75 million in cuts for ER visits, according to a release…
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After nearly three years of construction, John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, Calif., will be opening its new $612 million patient care tower on April 10, according to a Contra Costa Times news report.
CMS will no longer enforce a policy that was set to take place last week, requiring a physician or other practitioner’s signature on requisitions for clinical laboratory tests in 2011, according to an AHA News report. The policy was set…
Rex Hospital in Raleigh, N.C., has agreed to pay the federal government $1.9 million to settle Medicare fraud charges resulting from a whistleblower lawsuit, according to a news release from Phillips & Cohen LLP. The whistleblower suit alleged a…
Sabra Health Care REIT entered into an agreement to purchase Texas Regional Medical Center of Sunnyvale's real estate, according to a Sabra news release.
New York State, not hospitals, will pay medical bills for newborns who suffer brain injuries during birth, according to a Times-Union report.