The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee move forward The Prescription Drug User Fee Act, legislation that aims to alleviate drug shortages, according to an AHA News Now report.
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The House Budget Committee approved a budget reconciliation package to maintain the 2 percent across-the-board Medicare cuts — already a part of the Budget Control scheduled to start January 2013 — but replace sequestered cuts to defense spending with targeted…
The American Hospital Association, the Federation of American Hospitals and other healthcare groups are urging the Internal Revenue Service to prohibit device companies from passing medical device excise taxes along to customers, according to an AHA News Now report.
Accretive Health — the Chicago-based healthcare debt and collections agency that has been surrounded in controversy over accusations of patient privacy violations and questionable collections practices — reported profit of $1.49 million in the first quarter of 2012, a major…
Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas and physicians from Dallas-based UT Southwestern Medical Center are facing a whistleblower lawsuit alleging Medicare and Medicaid fraud, according to a Dallas Morning News report.
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Cardiologist Mark Midei, MD — who lost his medical license over allegations of unnecessary stenting in 2011 — will not be able to reinstate his license to practice in Maryland after a Baltimore County judge denied his appeal, according to…
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General recently issued an opinion on healthcare providers' issuance of discount coupons for medical services, finding the practice permissible if it is structured with certain safeguards.
Commencement address speakers are supposed to inspire graduating students to go far and do big things after school. But a group at Georgetown University is up-in-arms that HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius, a Catholic, will even be given the opportunity to…
Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City has agreed to pay close to $12 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act.
David Rosen, the former CEO of New York City-based Jamaica Hospital, Flushing Hospital, Brookdale Hospital and the management company overseeing them, has been sentenced to three years in prison for participating in a bribery scheme with state lawmakers, according to…