Southeast Volusia Hospital District and Bert Fish Medical Center in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., have reached a settlement with the law firm it accused of giving faulty legal advice during a merger with Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based Adventist Health System, according…
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Temple University in Philadelphia and Joseph J. Kubacki, MD, former chairman of the medical school's ophthalmology department, agreed to pay a combined settlement of roughly $1.09 million over Temple's voluntary disclosure of fraudulent billing.
An employee of Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago has been charged with identify theft after she allegedly stole patients' personal information to pay her personal bills, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has asked a federal judge to halt an antitrust suit filed by its competitor, West Penn Allegheny Health System, due to a recent contract agreement between UPMC and insurer Highmark, according to a Pittsburgh…
Paul Galzerano, a former associate vice president at Beverly (Mass.) Hospital, pleaded guilty yesterday to soliciting bribes and kickbacks from hospital contractors and stealing artwork from the facility while it was under renovation, according to a Salem News report.
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GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney says President Obama has no workable plan to prevent Medicare from falling into bankruptcy; President Obama says he will "never allow Medicare to be turned into a voucher that would end the program as we…
CMS is investigating University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview for possible violations of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act after Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson sued the hospital's debt collection agency for not protecting patient confidentiality, according to a…
The American Hospital Association is calling on the Internal Revenue Service to update private-use rules for healthcare facilities financed with tax-exempt bonds, according to an AHA News Now report.
CMS issued a final rule (pdf), establishing that health insurers that meet or exceed medical loss ratio standards must issue a straightforward notice to all policyholders for the 2011 MLR reporting year, which is this July.
New Hampshire legislators' efforts to entice for-profit hospitals to set up shop on the state's southern border have the CEO of Lawrence (Mass.) General Hospital concerned, according to a Boston Globe report.