Legal & Regulatory Issues

Medical journal Anesthesia & Analgesia has announced the retraction of 22 articles it published by Joachim Boldt, MD, PhD.

The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday approved legislation that will continue to fund federal programs through March 18, according to an AHA News Now report.

Democratic Senate leaders are saying private companies involved in Medicare claims processing may have conflicts of interest, according to a report by Reuters.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons reported the following six statistics about growth of plastic surgery volumes in 2010, based on its online national database and annual survey of board-certified plastic surgeons.1. Growth in cosmetic surgery. There were 13.1 million…

A two-week stopgap resolution proposed by House Republicans to avert a federal shutdown includes $466 million in HHS cuts but avoids defunding healthcare reform or reducing Medicare or Medicaid outlays, according to a report by the Hill.

The fate of healthcare reform will lie in whether judges view fines for failure to obtain healthcare coverage as a penalty or a tax, according to report by The Hill.

Repeal or defunding of healthcare reform won't be enough because the law has already wrought "profound" and "destructive" changes in the healthcare system, according to a guest opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal.

In comments filed in federal court in Florida, representatives of the 26 states that successfully challenged the healthcare reform law urged the judge in the case to stop implementation of the entire law, according to a report by the Hill.

Innovative Resources Group, doing business as APS Healthcare Midwest of White Plains, N.Y., will pay $13 million to the federal government and the state of Georgia to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to Medicaid for specialty services not…

A third federal judge has upheld the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law, according to a report by the New York Times.