The federal government is losing $48 billion a year in improper payments partly due to CMS' failure to adopt more money-saving tactics, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office.
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Medicare Advantage plans have very high payment error rates, making them ripe for the proposed RAC program that will patrol Medicare Parts C and D, according to a report by John Paul Spencer in the RAConteur.
President Obama signed a short-term spending bill, averting a shutdown of the federal government for two weeks while Congress hashes out a longer-term plan, according to a report by AHA News Now.
A lot of sports or business legends exhibit great courage and expertise, but their personal lives reveal things that are anything but exemplary. You might even call these legends phonies with feet of clay. But no one seems to care…
The Institute of Medicine has released a report summarizing a workshop series on trends in healthcare costs and healthcare experts' insights on methods to improve healthcare value, according to an IOM news release.
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James W. Marshall, MD, operator of walk-in clinic Immediate Medical Care in Monroe, Conn., has pleaded guilty to participating in a four-year conspiracy in which he admitted to illegally writing prescriptions for patients he never met, examined or consulted, according…
After pleading guilty to a misdemeanor violation of illegally promoting Zonegran, an epilepsy drug, Elan Pharmaceutics will pay $97 million in criminal fines, according to a news release from the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Elan violated the Food Drug and…
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality should focus its proposed set of 51 healthcare quality measures, which state Medicaid programs will be using for public reporting, according to a letter from the AHA.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-0 in favor of a former hospital lab technician who said he was fired due to his U.S. Army Reserve commitments, according to the Supreme Court decision. Vincent Staub said his supervisor at Proctor Hospital…
Costing-shifting has long been used by hospitals to recoup losses incurred by treating Medicaid and Medicare patients, but employers — armed with increasingly sophisticated data on employee health costs — are increasingly pressuring hospitals and insurers to end the practice.…