Sen. Jim Marleau has introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate to impose licensure on anesthesiologist assistants, according to a Belleville View report.
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Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., continues its fight to stay open, and yesterday, a New York State Supreme Court judge ordered that its former owners reclaim the struggling hospital, according to a New York Times report.
San Francisco has demanded Nevada reimburse local California governments for the care of about 500 patients given "Greyhound therapy," according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.
A lawsuit against the University of Kentucky over withholding patient safety data from its hospital's now-closed pediatric heart surgery program has been resolved, according to a CNN report.
A review of multiple records found more than half of physicians who were disciplined or banned by hospitals in the past 10 years were never fined or hit with a license restriction, suspension or revocation by state medical boards, according…
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Layoffs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., have led to at least one lawsuit against the hospital, according to a report in The Tennessean.
Shands Healthcare in Gainesville, Fla., has agreed to a $26.2 million settlement to resolve allegations of overbilling state and federal health programs.
Employees at small companies could see a significant increase in their options for health insurance coverage when the new exchanges open under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a Kaiser Health News report.
Texas Children's Hospital in Houston has filed suit against the state's health agency to halt pending changes to the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital program, according to a Houston Business Journal report.
Earlier this month, two Democratic senators, Mark R. Warner (Va.) and Johnny Isakson (Ga.) introduced a bill that would provide Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement for end-of-life planning for individuals with serious illnesses. The Care Planning Act of 2013 "establishes Medicare…