Alabama Governor Robert Bentley signed revisions to the state's certificate of need law, expanding CON provisions to limited liability companies and making change of ownership transactions easier, according to a report from Bradley Arant Boult Cummings.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
This week, Interpol officials arrested Arthur Porter, MD, former CEO of Detroit Medical Center from 1999 through 2003, in Panama, and he now faces extradition to Canada related to criminal charges while he headed a Canadian health system, according to…
A recent survey by the International Anesthesia Research Society found frequent problems with pulse oximetry sensors, including 53.2 percent of anesthesiologists who have trouble getting an oxygen saturation reading in as many as half of their cases.
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has downgraded the credit rating of Sumter, S.C.-based Tuomey Healthcare System two notches, from "BBB-" to "BB," due to the health system's current lawsuit with the federal government, and analysts said the suit has the…
Jerayr Rostamian has been sentenced by a federal court to more than three years in prison and a $25,000 fine for his role in a large-scale fraud scheme in the New Orleans metropolitan area that involved phony billing for Medicare…
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The Arizona Department of Public Safety is investigating into a threatening email and voicemail sent to state legislators who supported Gov. Jan Brewer's controversial plan to expand the Medicaid program under the federal healthcare reform law, according to a report…
In formally submitted comments, the American Society of Anesthesiologists supported a report from the U.S. Senate on re-examining healthcare information technology adoption strategies.
Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tenn., improperly billed the Medicare program by $1.09 million, though hospital officials disagree with some of the overbilling findings, according to a report from the HHS Office of Inspector General.
A report from the HHS Office of the Inspector General found Rapid City (S.D.) Regional Hospital, a 368-bed hospital that is part of Regional Health, must repay the government $256,789 in overbilled Medicare funds.
A jury sided with a whistleblower in a lawsuit against Corona (Calif.) Regional Medical Center, upholding the former employee's claim that he was fired for making complaints about unsafe healthcare conditions and wage violations at Corona, according to a Press-Enterprise…