North Carolina legislators are considering revising the certificate of need process healthcare organizations must face when looking to expand or renovate, according to a Daily Tar Heel report.
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Integris Canadian Valley Hospital in Yukon, Okla., has been ordered to pay $1 million to country singer Garth Brooks after a jury ruled the hospital breached its contract with the singer regarding a donation, according to a Houston Chronicle report.
Fifty teachings hospitals received nearly $2 million in Medicare overpayments for medical residents who were claimed by more than one hospital at the same time, according to a report from the Office of Inspector General.
More than 100 medical groups and societies, such as the American Medical Association and the Society of Hospital Medicine, sent a letter (pdf) to the House Ways and Means Committee urging the sustainable growth rate be permanently fixed with savings…
Memorial Hospital, an HCA facility in Jacksonville, Fla., will pay a man and his family approximately $178 million after the hospital and one of its physicians was accused of medical negligence, according to a Tennessean report.
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New Hampshire hospitals are opposing a bill that would exclude Cancer Treatment Centers of America from review by the certificate-of-need board and exempt it from the Medicaid enhancement tax — requirements of other healthcare facilities in the state — according…
A cardiologist is claiming UPMC Hamot in Erie, Pa., and a group of physicians bilked Medicare by performing unnecessary stent procedures, according to an Erie Times-News report.
A recent analysis by Milliman found North Carolina's Medicaid care management program, Community Care of North Carolina, saved $984 million in state and federal funding from 2007 to 2010, according to an American Medical News report.
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $158 million to Texas to settle allegations of Medicaid fraud, according to a news release from the office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. An investigation found J&J’s subsidiary, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, engaged in…
Satilla Regional Medical Center in Waycross, Ga., has paid $840,000 to settle federal allegations that it submitted Medicare claims for unnecessary procedures, according to a Florida Times-Union report.