Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) accepted his vice presidential nomination last night at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. In a speech that followed, Mr. Ryan said "Obamacare" is the greatest threat to Medicare, according to a transcript from Politico.
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Patient dumping — refusing patients care due to their inability to pay — still occurs despite the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act that requires hospitals' emergency departments to treat all patients regardless of ability to pay, according to a…
Catholic Health Services of Long Island, based in Rockville, N.Y., has agreed to pay upwards of $2.35 million to federal regulators after one of its hospitals reported questionable financial relationships with some of its physicians.
A new CMS demonstration project aimed at curbing Medicare fraud is set to begin on Sept. 1, 2012. The initiative is limited to physicians and suppliers of durable medical equipment in seven states where there has been extensive evidence of…
The Republican Party adopted its official platform yesterday at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., promising to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and replace it with more consumer-oriented policies.
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Congressman Phil Roe, MD, (R-Tenn.) has requested that the Congressional Budget Office analyze the impact of the Independent Payment Advisory Board's expected spending cuts if a Medicare physician payment fix is passed by Congress.
Tri-Lakes Medical Center in Batesville, Miss., has requested a waiver from CMS to change its organ procurement organization.
Los Angeles-based Pacific Health has agreed to pay $16.5 million to resolve allegations that its subsidiaries paid illegal kickbacks in exchange for patients recruited among homeless populations and then provided allegedly unnecessary care in a scheme to overbill Medicare and…
Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Memorial Health Care System has agreed to pay roughly $1.28 million to settle alleged violations of the False Claims Act and other federal laws.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and the rest of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service, asking to see all communication between the IRS and the White House because they believe there…