Johnson & Johnson has agreed to a $181 million settlement with 37 states and the District of Columbia, resolving claims that it improperly marketed its antipsychotic drug Risperdal, according to a news release.
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has denied a request by Mission Health System, based in Asheville, N.C., to place an endoscopy unit on a new outpatient campus in Fletcher, N.C., according to an Asheville Citizen-Times report.
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.
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.
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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.
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…