Legal & Regulatory Issues

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court arguing the high court should strike the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in its entirety, rather than strike the individual mandate, as was…

DFine, a spine device company based in San Jose, Calif., has agreed to pay $2.39 million to resolve federal allegations that it paid kickbacks to induce physicians to use certain devices used to treat spinal fractures, according to a news…

Nuclear medicine procedures have been flat and are trending slightly downward, according to a report by IMV Medical Information Division.

Health Management Associates, based in Naples, Fla., has said two government subpoenas it received apply to the company’s entire system and may involve alleged anti-kickback and False Claims Act violations, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The subpoenas were…

A whistleblower claims Wyoming Medical Center in Casper defrauded Medicare and Medicaid by tweaking patient records to collect higher reimbursements, according to a Star-Tribune report. The federal qui tam suit was filed by a hospital worker, Gale Bryden, in 2007,…

The White House has thrown its support to a House bill that would change the definition of modified adjusted gross income under the healthcare reform law.

In a letter addressed to the debt reduction committee, members of the Republican Governors Public Policy Committee are urging the supercommittee to refrain from cost-shifting Medicaid costs to states in its efforts to find $1.2-1.5 trillion in savings by Thanksgiving.

Biotech company Amgen, based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has set aside $780 million to cover the costs of settling federal and state probes into its sales and marketing practices, according to a Bloomberg report. Read more at Becker’s ASC Review.

Three physicians from Carolina Bone & Joint in Charlotte, N.C., have been fined $85,000 each by the state medical board for allegedly ordering unnecessary procedures, according to a Charlotte Observer report. Read more at Becker’s ASC Review.

Supporters of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have set out to reclaim the buzzword “ObamaCare” and rid it of negative connotations, according to a report from The Hill. The website “Thanks ObamaCare” is part of the supporters’ campaign…