An audit has found that Arkansas' Medicaid program erroneously distributed $1.36 million in payments to ineligible recipients since 2009, according to an Associated Press/Arkansas Online report.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
Indiana Sen. Dennis Kruse (R) has written a bill that would allow hospitals to establish their own police departments.
HHS and the Department of Justice announced the federal government recovered $7.90 for every dollar spent on healthcare fraud investigations over the past three years.
A judge approved Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed Health & Hospitals' deferred prosecution deal with federal prosecutors Feb. 8, reasoning that a conviction could harm patients, according to a Winston-Salem Journal report.
U.S. District Judge David Campbell in Phoenix ordered that HHS re-review a waiver application for Arizona's Medicaid copay demonstration project within 60 days, claiming the department's original approval did not offer adequate explanation, according to a report by the Daily…
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Powell (Wyo.) Valley Healthcare has settled its lawsuit against a management company over former hospital CEO Paul Cardwell, who was charged with bilking $848,000 from the system, according to an Associated Press/Billings Gazette report.
CMS announced changes to its Medicare Medically Unlikely Edits program, which screens claims for likely errors under Part B to avoid excess payments.
Responding to an HHS ruling that would allow religiously-affiliated groups such as hospitals to opt out of providing free contraception coverage for employees, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement saying the compromise doesn't go far enough for…
Englewood, Colo.-based Catholic Health Initiatives has agreed to pay $4.9 million to resolve allegations that it overbilled Medicare and Medicaid by keeping patients in its St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Md., longer than necessary, according to a Baltimore Sun…
Did you know that medical centers in Libertyville, Ill., and Detroit recently paid $36 million and $30 million in separate settlements of alleged violations of laws affecting physician self-referrals and their real estate assets?