Uninsured, low-income Pennsylvania residents are still waiting to see if they will be able to gain coverage under Medicaid expansion in the near future, according to an NPR report.
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Although the District of Columbia health insurance exchange will open for business Oct. 1, it won't deploy the function that calculates tax credits and determines Medicaid eligibility because of the high error rate experienced during systems testing.
A New Mexico hospital and physician are facing allegations they teamed with an international biomedical technology company to implant unnecessary devices into patients, according to a Las Cruces Sun-News report.
A federal judge has rejected an important part of Florida's new medical malpractice law, ruling it would violate patient privacy, according to a Miami Herald report.
A bipartisan group of more than 100 federal lawmakers led by Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) has asked CMS to delay for six months the implementation of a regulation that generally considers inpatient admissions spanning two midnights as qualifying for payment…
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The Senate has voted unanimously to move forward with its consideration of a spending resolution that would defund the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, despite Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) calling for a filibuster.
Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center is facing claims of patient dumping after it allegedly discharged an uninsured patient prematurely, according to a Tennessean report.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other Republican leaders have attempted to speed up debate over a spending resolution that would defund the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have…
Illinois has recently expanded and toughened potential penalties for healthcare fraud, according to a report in Lexology.
During the opening arguments of the antitrust case against St. Luke's Health System, lawyers representing the Federal Trade Commission and two area hospitals argued the Boise, Idaho-based system's acquisition of an independent physician practice would give the system an unfair…