Guidant, a subsidiary of Natick, Mass.-based Boston Scientific, has agreed to pay $9.25 million to settle False Claims Act charges over the company’s alleged cost inflation for pacemakers and defibrillators, according to a news release from the Department of Justice.…
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The Obama administration has decided to forego a full review of an Atlanta appeals court decision that declared the individual mandate unconstitutional, according to a USA Today report.
Lawyers for the Obama administration face the risky choice of skipping a possible full review of an Atlanta appeals court decision that declared the individual mandate unconstitutional as President Obama continues his campaign for a 2012 re-election, according to an…
U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) have introduced the Medicaid Flexibility for States Act legislation, which would allow states to opt out of Medicaid expansion under President Obama's healthcare reform law.
Online deals for medical care, such as those offered through sites like Groupon and LivingSocial, could be interpreted as splitting fees or paying kickbacks (in this case to a website) to find new patients, caution healthcare attorneys in a Sun…
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The National Association of Medicaid Directors is urging members of the supercommittee to provide more flexibility to states in how they operate their Medicaid programs, saying that more flexibility could produce savings for the program, according to a report by…
The U.S. Department of Justice has formally closed its investigation into the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Highmark’s roles in possible anticompetitive practices, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report. The investigation began in 2007 as part of a national…
The American Medical Association has filed an amicus, or friend-of-the-court, brief urging the Florida Supreme Court to uphold current state limit's on medical malpractice awards for noneconomic damages, according to an AMA news release.
Contrary to media headlines closely monitoring the lower- and mid-level federal courts as they opine on the individual insurance mandate, the United States Judiciary Branch may have little impact on the future of President Barack Obama's 2010 Patient Protection and…
Gibson General Hospital in Princeton, Ind., has made a civil settlement to resolve allegations that the hospital assumed billing for its surgery center to receive larger Medicare and Medicaid payments than if the billing had come from the surgery center,…