Cook County commissioners approved a $2.6 million settlement to three physicians who, in two federal lawsuits, claimed they were illegally laid off in 2007 from Provident Hospital in Chicago, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
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Three years after Novant Health first challenged to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's $38.7 million surgery center, the battle has ended but a new timeline for the project has not been announced, according to a Business Journal report.
Assurance Biosense was granted FDA 510(k) clearance to market its Alar Sensor, an anesthesia device used for monitoring oxygen saturation in arterial hemoglobin and pulse rate.
Citing concerns that President Barack Obama's administration has not done an adequate job of unrolling the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act he helped draft and champion, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) told HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius he feared the landmark…
North Carolina's attorney general is urging lawmakers to enforce a range of price control strategies, including changes to hospitals' billing and collection processes, according to a News & Observer report.
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Personal insurance giant Travelers has filed suit against Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center, a for-profit hospital based in Secaucus, N.J., alleging the hospital committed fraud by not sending car-accident victims to less expensive healthcare venues, according to a Record report.
Two reports from the HHS Office of Inspector General found that Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, Mass., and Somerset (Pa.) Hospital received more than $1 million in cumulative overpayments from the Medicare program.
The Office of Inspector General has released updated provider self-disclosure protocol, which is entirely revised from the SDP published in 1998.
The U.S. attorney for the Central District of California is investigating Pacific Hospital of Long Beach (Calif.) for alleged kickbacks and improper payments stemming from an implant distributorship, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
MedWatch released its 2013 safety labeling changes, and 53 products were affected, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists.