Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has launched an investigation into the prices of drugs resold to hospitals by drug distributors at several times their wholesale prices, according to a…
Legal & Regulatory Issues
The Office of Inspector General has released the Work Plan (pdf) for fiscal year 2012 that outlines projects OIG will continue or start in the new fiscal year.
In response to the Senate Finance Committee’s report and concerns over physician-owned distributorships, the Office of Inspector General is initiating a review of PODs to examine how they may contribute to cost increases. PODs, which exist in at least 20…
The California Department of Public Health has dismissed cases related to the diagnosis and coding of septicemia at Prime Healthcare hospitals, but referred the data to fraud officials for further examination, according to a Sacramento Bee report. The findings have…
More than 200 hospital leaders visited Capitol Hill yesterday as part of the American Hospital Association's Advocacy Day, according to an AHA News Now report.
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A lawyer and his client, the former owner of the now-defunct Edgewater Hospital in Chicago, have been indicted on federal charges that they committed perjury and obstruction of justice, according to a news release from the Federal Bureau of Investigations.…
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is conducting an internal review to determine the medical appropriateness of approximately 400 cardiac stent procedures from June-Dec. 2010, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report.
Thirty-nine healthcare groups and medical associations, including the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges have sent a letter to members of Congress' Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, better known as the…
The California Department of Public Health has found no deficiencies or errors by Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services related to the diagnosis or coding of septicemia at its hospitals, according to a Prime Healthcare news release.
Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home, Ark., is seeking $15 million in damages from a Texas management firm that BRMC claims violated federal physician self-referral statutes, according to a Baxter Bulletin report. BRMC claims that Horizon Mental Health Management,…