Florida Hospital in Orlando has repaid $3 million to Medicare, a move seen by prosecutors as corroborating overbilling allegations and by hospital officials as the result of a routine audit, according to an Orlando Sentinel report.
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King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services received a subpoena last month from the Office of Inspector General, requesting documents dating back to January 2008 on 10 of the company's behavioral health facilities, according to UHS' latest securities exchange filing.
The South Dakota Senate has rejected a proposal that would have required health insurers to cover enrollees' visits to any healthcare provider in the area who met the payors' "terms and conditions," according to an Argus Leader report.
Senior care provider Genesis HealthCare, based in Kennett Square, Pa., has reached a settlement with the HHS Office for Civil Rights, resolving a complaint that the company failed to provide a qualified interpreter to one of its residents in Maryland.
The Government Accountability Office says CMS overpaid private Medicare Advantage plans by at least $3.2 billion from 2010 through 2012, according to its new report.
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Benjamin Franklin said that "in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." It would be fair to tack on that today, in the context of any business enterprise, the threat of litigation is also…
A court has ruled that a union's robo-call campaign that connected citizens directly to a hospital CEO's phone line is compliant with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, according to a Littler report.
Cancer Treatment Centers of America, a national cancer hospital chain based in Schaumburg, Ill., has filed suit against former a executive, Lynette Bisconti, alleging she tried to extort nearly $50 million from the system's CEO Richard Stephenson, according to a…
The Medical Center of Georgia in Macon has filed a lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia, claiming the payor underpaid it by more than $22 million dating back to 2009, according to a Telegraph report.
For providers, payors, patients and politicians gearing up for changes called for in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act taking place next year, Massachusetts may offer some clues into what they can expect, according to a webinar led by…