A new house bill, sponsored by Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), would increase federal support and payments for telehealth services nationwide, according to a report by PhysBizTech.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
EMH Regional Medical Center in Elyria, Ohio, and North Ohio Heart Center have agreed to pay the government a combined $4.4 million to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims to Medicare.
For-profit hospital network Universal Health Services won a $6.89 million legal challenge against five former executives who it says breached non-compete agreements when they moved to work for an affiliate of Acadia Healthcare based in Franklin, Tenn., according to a…
A former tobacco outreach worker at Glendale (Calif.) Adventist Medical Center is suing the hospital, three hospital executives and three city council members, alleging he was wrongfully terminated from his job, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.
Medicare Part B carrier Noridian overturned its decision to deny payment for monitored cataract anesthesia without proven medical necessity, according to the Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society.
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HHS has approved the health insurance exchanges of eight more states — Arkansas, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Vermont and Utah.
An FDA recall has been issued for the Bunnell Life Pulse high frequency ventilator patient circuits, according to the American Society of Anesthesiology.
Time is shrinking for employers to analyze their health plan offerings, or lack thereof, before the health law's coverage mandates go into effect Jan. 1, 2014, and the likely outcomes look different for various-sized companies, according to a report by…
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Zatkoff temporarily protected a Michigan employer from the federal health law's contraception coverage mandate that would have taken effect Tuesday when he granted request for a restraining order on the provision by the founder of Domino's…
The Internal Revenue Service has issued a proposed rule to implement and enforce parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that require many employers to provide health coverage.