White House spokesman Jay Carney said the recently unveiled Medicare overhaul proposal created by U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) would "undermine rather than strengthen Medicare," according to a Washington Post report.
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A lawsuit claims Memorial Hospital Jacksonville (Fla.) billed auto insurance companies at legal rates but then billed patients in car accidents at higher rates if they didn’t have health insurance, according to a Florida Times-Union report. Personal Injury Protection insurance…
A member of a committee organized by the Maryland Health Care Commission to prevent improper stenting has now been accused of unnecessary stenting himself in three separate legal claims, according to a Baltimore Sun report. John Chung-Yee Wang, MD, is…
A proposed CMS rule would require manufacturers of drugs, devices, biologicals and medical supplies covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program to report payments or other transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals to…
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) have released a new bipartisan plan that looks to revamp Medicare by creating a fixed federal payment for each beneficiary, according to a New York Times report.
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In a 234-193 vote, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a Republican-proposed payroll tax cut bill, the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act (HR 3630), that included several measures, including a temporary fix to the sustainable growth rate,…
Boston Medical Center received roughly $90,000 in Medicare overpayments from 2006-2010 due to incorrect coding, according to a report from the Office of Inspector General. Billing on behalf of its physicians, the 639-bed hospital erred in coding 7,520 claims by…
The Department of Justice recovered more than $5.6 billion in total fraud in 2011, with more than $2.9 billion of it from healthcare fraud alone, according to a news release from the Department of Health and Human Services. The $5.6…
Fridley, Minn.-based Medtronic has agreed to pay $23.5 million to settle allegations that it paid kickbacks to physicians to induce their use of company pacemakers and defibrillators, according to a news release from the Department of Justice. The United States…
The FBI is interviewing former medical coders from Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare about the hospital company’s billing practices, according to a report from investigative news outlet California Watch. While the FBI would not confirm nor deny a probe, two former…