Of the roughly $16 billion dollars the Justice Department has recovered through healthcare whistleblower cases since 1987, about 36 percent has come since 2009, reflecting a surge in qui tam action, according to USA Today report.
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The former vice president of corporate risk management at Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has pled guilty to eight counts of embezzlement, according to a Winston-Salem Journal report.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-4 majority opinion (pdf) today that will send a case back to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding whether Medicaid providers and beneficiaries can sue the state over Medicaid reductions.
The Supreme Court has added 30 minutes to oral arguments on the tax law in relation to healthcare reform legislation, according to a Politico report.
CMS has issued revised guidance on rehabilitation and respiratory care services for hospital Conditions of Participation, according to an AHA News Now report.
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Tim Leigh, a councilman for Colorado Springs, Colo., has called for the CEO and chief strategy officer of Memorial Health System in Colorado Springs to be put on administrative leave and an investigation of the city-owned system, according to a…
A physician from Naples, Fla., will pay a fine of $10,000 after he allegedly accessed thousands of patient records at NCH Downtown Naples Hospital to see who didn't have a primary care physician, according to a Naples Daily News report.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, passed in March 2010, creates several programs that aim to increase healthcare quality and lower costs. One of the most recognizable of these is the Medicare Shared Savings, or accountable care organization, program.…
U.S. Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.) unveiled a new Medicare overhaul proposal that would raise the Medicare eligibility age and provide a quicker transition to Medicare Advantage plans, according to a Forbes report.
Officials of New Jersey's Bergen County have sued the operator of its public hospital for allegedly failing to provide public documents officials need to determine the hospital's future before the lease expires in five years, according to a report from…