Paul Cardwell, former CEO of Powell (Wyo.) Valley Healthcare has been indicted on 15 counts included mail and wire fraud and money laundering, according to a Powell Tribune report.
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Jay Warden, Senior Vice President, The Camden Group, shares his thoughts on how the Supreme Court's decision on the constitutionality of the individual mandate will impact healthcare reform and delivery.
The Supreme Court ended its three-day series of healthcare reform hearings with an oral argument on whether the law's Medicaid expansion provision coerces states, according to a Politico report.
Health IT vendors and healthcare providers are far from ready to start using ICD-10, according to a recent study conducted by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange and reported in Health IT Update.
In a recent letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the MGMA advocated a thorough determination of new implementation timelines for ICD-10, according to a Health Data Management report.
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A federal judge yesterday barred the use of sodium thiopental, an imported anesthetic administered to death row inmates prior to lethal injections, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.
The American Hospital Association has submitted comments to CMS in support of its decision to maintain current Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act regulations.
Conservative Supreme Court justices are prepared to strike down the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act if the individual mandate is deemed unconstitutional, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
The Food and Drug Administration published guidance for medical device manufacturers that describes how the benefits and risks of certain medical devices are considered during the pre-market review.
Today the Supreme Court will end its three days of healthcare reform hearings with oral arguments on the severability of the law and Medicaid expansion, according to a Washington Post report.