A federal appeals court Friday granted an emergency injunction request by an Illinois business to put brakes on the contraception coverage mandate of the federal healthcare law, which would have been enforced beginning Tuesday, Jan. 1.
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The FDA issued a Class 1 recall for Ventlab's adult and pediatric manual resuscitator, according to The Legal Examiner.
A former supervisor at a billing company who oversaw accounts for SSM Health Care has been sentenced to 37 months in prison for embezzling more than $100,000 from the St. Louis-based health system, according to a St. Louis Business Journal…
The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled that a physician is not responsible for a physician assistant's improper conduct — a ruling that is expected to ease physicians' reluctance to sign on as supervising physicians for PAs, according to an American…
Although the Supreme Court will hear the case against and could overturn the federal healthcare law's contraception coverage mandate next year, it will still take effect Jan. 1, 2013, incensing Catholic employers and others who reject the provision on religious…
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Last week, 210 employees at Cooper Green Mercy Hospital in Birmingham, Ala., were placed on administrative leave without pay, but a lawyer is saying the workforce reduction does not comply with federal regulations, according to an Alabama Media Group report.
The following 12 settlements involved alleged False Claims Act violations, exceeded $1 million and were reached by hospitals and/or health systems within the past year. Settlements are arranged in descending dollar value.
Federal investigators found "systemic failures" in the University of California Davis Medical Center's neurosurgery program after three patients died following "non-standard, experimental treatments" introducing bowel bacteria to cancer patients' brains, according to a report from the Sacramento Bee.
Senate Finance Committee leaders want more state accountability for audits of certain Medicaid payments at the recommendation of a recent Government Accountability Office report that found overpayments and miscalculations in more than 40 states, according to a report from The…
A billing error has come to light for several 2009 procedures at the University of Toledo Medical Center in Ohio, according to the Toledo Blade.