Rhode Island's insurance commissioner instructed health insurers to stop enforcing confidentiality clauses with providers, meaning healthcare prices in the state will become available in the coming months, according to a Providence Journal report.
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Pittsburgh-based health insurer Highmark is facing an antitrust lawsuit, as three Pennsylvania residents and two businesses claim Highmark and three other payors have violated antitrust law by colluding to not compete against one another, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report.
HHS announced that Idaho State University in Pocatello has agreed to pay $400,000 to HHS to settle alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 Security Rule.
Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas will pay $1.4 million to resolve allegations it defrauded Medicare and Medicaid, according to a Dallas Morning News report.
A report from the HHS Office of Inspector General has found Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center overbilled Medicare more than $2.24 million over a three-and-a-half-year stretch.
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The FDA has issued an alert for healthcare providers to quarantine any sterile products distributed from NuVision Pharmacy of Dallas and not administer them to patients, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
HHS has issued an interim final rule that sets reimbursement rates under the agency's pre-existing condition insurance plan guidelines to be made final June 15.
In an effort to remove potential slowdowns for states in Medicaid enrollment once millions more are expected to join the rolls next year, top CMS officials have simplified the system and proposed strategies to encourage early and efficient enrollment.
Massachusetts' 2006 healthcare reform law, signed by former Gov. Mitt Romney and often considered the model for President Barack Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, did not cause increases in hospital use or costs, according to a report from…
A former employee at Bayonne (N.J.) Medical Center will receive more than $2.1 million after suing the hospital under the state's whistleblower law, according to a Jersey Journal report.