Allen Hospital in Waterloo, Iowa, has agreed to settle a class-action discrimination suit for $2 million, according to a KWWL report.
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The House Ways and Means Committee has voted 23-13 to pass legislation that would repeal the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act under the healthcare reform law, according to a report from The Hill.
Stryker Biotech reached a settlement with the US Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts to resolve a 2009 federal grand jury indictment, according to a Stryker news release.
A recent poll showed 93 percent of Florida physicians support legislation designed to reform the state's current medical malpractice system, according to a Patients for Fair Compensation release.
Though the technology has been around for roughly 30 years, physicians making the move from paper to electronic medical records may still face some challenges — particularly when it comes to understanding the legal implications of EMRs. In Nov. 2011,…
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The American Hospital Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges recently urged its members to oppose the hospital cuts that would offset the costs of temporarily fixing the sustainable growth rate, according to an Inside Health Policy report.
An OIG review found UPMC Shadyside in Pittsburgh incorrectly billed Medicare and received $26,547 in overpayments. The hospital incorrectly billed patients’ second admission as a separate inpatient stay rather than a continuous stay based on their first admission. This occurred…
David Hamedany, the former director of construction for Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, Calif., has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay back the $4.8 million generated from his kickback schemes, according to a news release…
Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates has released a letter from its former general counsel to show his departure has “absolutely nothing to do” with a recent wrongful termination lawsuit against the system. Paul Meyer, a former Health Management employee, has…
A six-year whistleblower suit against Franklin, Tenn.-based IASIS Healthcare has already been dismissed, but now the attorneys who represented the whistleblower have been found of ethical misconduct. Attorneys from Phillips & Cohen have been ordered to pay IASIS certain fees…