In a letter addressed to the Senate Committee on Finance, the American Hospital Association is urging lawmakers to support legislation that would extend expiring health programs and provisions, according to an AHA News Now report.
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A Kaiser Family Foundation poll recently showed that 44 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act while 37 percent have a favorable opinion.
Gwendolyn Washington, MD, a primary care physician based in Southfield, Mich., has been sentenced to 10 years in prison following a conviction for corruption, healthcare fraud and prescription drug trafficking, according to a Detroit Free Press report.
The AMA House of Delegates has instructed the American Medical Association to identify and review states whose governors have opted out of the federal Medicare physician supervision requirements for anesthesia provision, according to an American Medical News report. Read the…
A hospital owned by Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare is facing accusations from investigative news outlet California Watch that it diagnosed patients with acute heart failure to reap more generous Medicare payments. California Watch alleges that from 2008-2010, Chino (Calif.) Valley…
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CMS has awarded $9 million to help Senior Medicare Patrols continue in the fight against Medicare fraud, according to a CMS news release. The SMP program is operated by the Administration on Aging in partnership with CMS and the HHS…
President Obama has signed into law a House bill that changes the definition of modified adjusted gross income under the healthcare reform law and repeals a 3 percent withholding provision under the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005,…
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), co-chairmen of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, are expected to announce that the supercommittee will not set forth a deal outlining at least $1.2 trillion in cost savings by…
New York-based Pfizer is expected to pay at least $60 million to the United States to settle allegations that it paid bribes to companies overseas to obtain business, according to a Wall Street Journal report. In a Nov. 10 regulatory…
The following lawsuits were filed or announced in the past month. 1. OIG: Cleveland Clinic Received Nearly $254k in Medicare OverpaymentsA federal review has found Cleveland Clinic was overpaid approximately $254,000 for 24 Medicare claims from 2008-2009. The report says…